Nonparametric predictive pairwise comparison with competing risks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 146-153

  Coolen Maturi, Tahani ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Lower and upper probabilities; Lower and upper survival functions; Nonparametric predictive inference; Pairwise comparison; Reliability; Right censored data

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; RISKS; FAILURE MODES; PROBABILITY;

COMPETING RISKS; LOWER AND UPPER PROBABILITIES; NONPARAMETRIC PREDICTIVE INFERENCE; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; RIGHT-CENSORED DATA; SURVIVAL FUNCTION; CENSORED DATA;

FAILURE MODES; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893834321     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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