Abstract
Dimitrov, Rachev and Yakovlev (1985) have obtained the isotonic maximum likelihood estimator for the bimodal failure rate function. The authors considered only the complete failure time data. The generalization of this estimator for the case of censored and tied observations is now proposed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 135-140 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Statistics |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 1989 |
Keywords
- censored data
- failure rate
- isotonic estimator
- maximum likelihood
- tied observations