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Nelson, W., Applied Life Data Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, 1982.

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Crow, L.H., "Reliability Growth Estimation With Missing Data - II," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 248-253, 1988.

Crow, L.H., "Reliability Growth Projection from Delayed Fixes," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 84-89, 1983.

Crow, L.H., "Methods for Assessing Reliability Growth Potential," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 484-489, 1984.

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IEC International Standard, Reliability Growth- Statistical test and estimation methods, IEC 1164 International Electrotechnical Commission, 1995.

Crow, L.H., "Confidence Interval Procedures for the Weibull Process with Applications to Reliability Growth," Technometrics, Vol. 24, No.1, pp. 67-72, 1982.

Crow, L.H., "Reliability Analysis for Complex, Repairable Systems in Reliability and Biometry," SIAM, ed. by Proschan and R. J. Serfling, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pp. 379-410, 1974.

Crow, L.H., "Evaluating the Reliability of Repairable Systems," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 275-279, 1990.

Crow, L.H., "Confidence Intervals on the Reliability of Repairable Systems," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 126-134, 1993.

Crow, L.H., "An Extended Reliability Growth Model for Managing and Assessing Corrective Actions," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 73-80, 2004.

Crow, L.H., "Methods for Reducing the Cost to Maintain a Fleet of Repairable Systems," IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 392-399, 2003.

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