An imputation-based approach for parameter estimation in the presence of ambiguous censoring with application in industrial supply chain

DOI10.1214/10-AOAS348zbMATH Open1220.62123arXiv1101.1365OpenAlexW3100429665MaRDI QIDQ542963FDOQ542963

Authors: Samiran Ghosh 

Publication date: 20 June 2011

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper describes a novel approach based on "proportional imputation" when identical units produced in a batch have random but independent installation and failure times. The current problem is motivated by a real life industrial production-delivery supply chain where identical units are shipped after production to a third party warehouse and then sold at a future date for possible installation. Due to practical limitations, at any given time point, the exact installation as well as the failure times are known for only those units which have failed within that time frame after the installation. Hence, in-house reliability engineers are presented with a very limited, as well as partial, data to estimate different model parameters related to installation and failure distributions. In reality, other units in the batch are generally not utilized due to lack of proper statistical methodology, leading to gross misspecification. In this paper we have introduced a likelihood based parametric and computationally efficient solution to overcome this problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1365

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zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationimputationreliabilityproportional sampling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Censored data models (62N01) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30)

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Cited In (3)

• Study of an imputation algorithm for the analysis of interval-censored data
• On analysis of incomplete field failure data
• An imputation-based approach for parameter estimation in the presence of ambiguous censoring with application in industrial supply chain

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• SPLIDA

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