Estimating parameters of proportional hazards model based on expert knowledge and statistical data

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1621-1636

  Zuashkiani, A ^a   Banjevic, D ^a   Jardine, A K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Condition based maintenance; Expert knowledge; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

BIOHAZARDS; CONDITION MONITORING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STATISTICS; TESTING;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE; CONDITION-MONITORING DATA; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TIME-DEPENDENT COVARIATES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70350291571     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2008.119     Document Type: Article

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