Competing risks on coherent reliability systems: Estimation in the parametric case

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Abstract

A coherent reliability system is a machine composed of a number of components that fails as soon as the set of failed components reaches certain fatal set-thresholds. On failure of the machine, an autopsy report reveals its time of failure and the set of failed components. I use incomplete data methods to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of parameters characterizing the lifetime distributions of the components, based on a sample of autopsy reports.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1459-1464
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the American Statistical Association
Volume89
Issue number428
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1994

Keywords

  • EM algorithm

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