Article ID: | iaor20103528 |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 380 |
End Page Number: | 389 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Samaniego Francisco J, Bhattacharya Debasis |
Keywords: | failure modelling |
Suppose that failure times are available from a random sample of N systems of a given, fixed design with components which have i.i.d. lifetimes distributed according to a common distribution F. The inverse problem of estimating F from data on observed system lifetimes is considered. Using the known relationship between the system and component lifetime distributions via signature and domination theory, the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator$ \hat{ \bar{F}} $