Journal article
Exact Nonparametric Meta-Analysis of Lifetime Data from Systems with Known Signatures
Abstract
In this paper, a mixture representation is derived for the pooled system lifetimes arising from a life-test on two or more independent samples. The components of each system are assumed to have the same common absolutely continuous distribution, but the system signature may vary between the samples. These mixtures are then used for developing exact nonparametric inference in the form of confidence intervals for quantiles of component or system …
Authors
Volterman W; Balakrishnan N; Davies KF; Ng HKT
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 796–801
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Date
June 1, 2016
DOI
10.1109/tr.2015.2494362
ISSN
0018-9529