A bayesian nonparametric estimator of survival probability assuming increasing failure rate

DOI10.1080/03610928108828019zbMath0459.62086OpenAlexW1977867133MaRDI QIDQ3909886

L. J. Wei, W. J. Padgett

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928108828019

zbMATH Keywords

survival functionprobability density estimationincreasing failure rate functionsarbitrarily right-censored observationsBayesian nonparametric estimatorsjump process priorslife testing reliability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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