Life testing for multi-component systems with incomplete information on the cause of failure: A study on some inspection strategies

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 373-393

  Gupta, Shanti S ^a   Gastaldi, Tommaso ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Competing risk model; Masked data; Multi component system; Random censoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMPETING RISK MODEL; LIFE TESTING INSPECTION STRATEGIES; MULTICOMPONENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL INSPECTION STRATEGIES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0043039544     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(95)00059-3     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Barlow, R.E and F. Proschan, Statistical theory of reliability and life testing - probability models (H.R.W., 1975) 58.
2. Basu, A. and J. Klein, Some recent development in competing risks theory, in: J. Crowley and R., A. Johnson (Eds.), Survival analysis (IMS) Hayward, CA (1982) 216-229.
3. Baxter, L.A., Estimation subject to block censoring, IEEE Trans., Reliability, 44 489-495.
4. Cox, D.R., The analysis of exponentially distributed lifetimes with two types of failures, J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Ser. B, 21 (1959) 411-421.
5. David, H.A., Parametric approaches to the theory of competing risks, in: F. Proschan and R.J. Serfling (Eds.), Reliability and Biometry - Statistical analysis of lifelengths, (1974) 275.
6. David, H.A. and M.L. Moeschberger, (1978), The Theory of Competing Risks (Griffin's Statistical Monographs & Courses No. 39), London: Charles W. Griffin.
7. Gastaldi, T., Improved maximum likelihood estimation for component reliabilities with Miyakawa-Usher-Hodgson-Guess' estimators under censored search for the cause of failure, Statist. Probab. Lett. 19 (1994), 5-18.
8. Gastaldi, T. and S.S. Gupta, A minimax type procedure for nonparametric selection of the "best" population with partially classified data, Commun. Statist. 23 (1994) 2503-2532.
9. Guess, F.M., J.S. Usher and T.J. Hodgson, Estimating system and component reliabilities under partial information on cause of failure, J. Statist. Plann. Inference, 29 (1991) 75-85.
10. Mendenhall, W. and R.J. Hader Estimation of parameters of mixed exponentially distributed failure time distributions from censored life test data, Biometrika 45 (1958) 504-520.
11. Miyakawa, M., Analysis of incomplete data in a competing risks model, IEEE Trans. Reliability, 33 (1984) 293-296.
12. Usher, J. S., On the problem of masked system life data, Advances in reliability (Elsevier, Amsterdam, (1993) 435-443.
13. Usher, J.S. and F.M. Guess, An iterative approach for estimating component reliability from masked system life data, Quality Reliability Engineering International, 5 (1989) 257-261.
14. Usher, J.S. and T.J. Hodgson, Maximum likelihood analysis of component reliability using masked system life data, IEEE Trans. Reliability, 37 (1988) 550-555.