Analysis of incomplete data in presence of competing risks among several groups

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 262-269

  Kundu, Debasis ^a   Sarhan, Ammar M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Hypothesis testing; Incomplete data; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum likelihood estimators; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPETING RISK; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATENT FAILURE TIMES MODEL; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33745220094     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.874919     Document Type: Article

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