Asymptotic properties of a class of statistical models in software reliability
M.C. Pul · Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands · 1992
In software reliability theory many different models have been proposed and investigated.A number of important software reliability models can be formulated in terms of counting processes and are completely characterized by their intensity function.In this paper a rather general class of intensity functions is considered.Sufficient conditions are given under which some important asymptotic properties of the model and of the maximum likelihood estimators for the model parameters can be proved.A novel aspect of our approach is the way in which we treat asymptotic theory.An application to software reliability theory is presented.