Failure Rate Estimation Using Random Smoothing.

Abstract

This note investigates some aspects of the distribution theory of an estimator of the failure-rate function. It clarifies and gives a slightly different approach to some asymptotic results of Singpurwalla for the failure rate process from exponential lifetimes. In addition, we extend these results to the case of general lifetimes. This leads us to confidence regions for randomly smoothed versions of the failure-rate function, for both finite and large samples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041028

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  • Douglas R. Miller
  • Nozer D. Singpurwalla

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