Goodness-of-Fit of the Distribution of Time-to-First-Occurrence in Recurrent Event Models

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 289-306

  Agustin, Ma Zenia N ^a   Peña, Edsel A ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting process; Directional test; Imperfect and perfect repairs; Minimal repair; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; Omnibus test; Repairable system; Score test; Smooth goodness of fit

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; AVIATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AIR CONDITIONING; AVIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0035462525     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011692525705     Document Type: Article

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