Customer-rush near warranty expiration limit, and nonparametric hazard rate estimation from known mileage accumulation rates

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 480-489

  Rai, Bharatendra ^a   Singh, Nanua ^b  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer rush; Hazard function; Mileage accumulation rate; Soft failures; Warranty data

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MILEAGE ACCUMULATION RATES; NONPARAMETRIC HAZARD RATE ESTIMATION; VEHICLE DESIGN; WARRANTY EXPIRATION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 34047266626     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.879648     Document Type: Article

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