Nonparametric estimation of marginal failure distributions from dually censored automotive data

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 86-89

  Krivtsov, Vasiliy ^a   Frankstein, Michael ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Hazard function; Marginal estimates; Warranty data

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS; CENSORING; FAILURE DISTRIBUTIONS; HAZARD FUNCTION; MARGINAL ESTIMATES; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; WARRANTY DATA; FAILURE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; RELIABILITY CHARACTERISTICS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; RELIABILITY;

EID: 2342655593     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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