Improved maximum likelihood estimation for component reliabilities with Miyakawa-Usher-Hodgson-Guess' estimators under censored search for the cause of failure

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 5-18

  Gastaldi, Tommaso ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

censoring; competing risk model; exponential distribution; failure rate; incomplete data; masked data; ML estimator; multi component system; order statistics; r out of r system; survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149146261     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(94)90062-0     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Estimating system and component reliabilities under partial information on cause of failure
2. Consistency of maximum likelihood estimation of discrete distributions
3. Analysis of Incomplete Data in Competing Risks Model
4. Maximum likelihood analysis of component reliability using masked system life data
5. Note on the Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate