Improved maximum likelihood estimation for component reliabilities with Miyakawa-Usher-Hodgson-Guess' estimators under censored search for the cause of failure (Q1324583)

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Improved maximum likelihood estimation for component reliabilities with Miyakawa-Usher-Hodgson-Guess' estimators under censored search for the cause of failure
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    Improved maximum likelihood estimation for component reliabilities with Miyakawa-Usher-Hodgson-Guess' estimators under censored search for the cause of failure (English)
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    20 March 1995
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    This paper discusses a method to improve the estimator of failure rates with incomplete (`masked') data in life tests for multi-component systems. After describing the general model with masked data, the author presents a procedure, which improves the accuracy of the estimator of the reliabilities of components. Furthermore, sufficient conditions for the Usher-Hodgson's estimators, a generalization of Miyakawa's MLE, to be the MLEs, and that Miyakawa-Usher-Hodgson-Guess' estimators are inconsistent in the Guess' model are given.
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    incomplete data
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    estimator of failure rates
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    life tests
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    multi-component systems
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    masked data
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    Usher-Hodgson's estimators
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    generalization of Miyakawa's MLE
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