Nonparametric predictive inference for competing risks

T A Maturi, P Coolen-Schrijner and F P A Coolen

Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2010, vol. 224, issue 1, 11-26

Abstract: In reliability, failure data often correspond to competing risks, where several failure modes can cause a unit to fail. This paper presents nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) for competing risks data, assuming that the different failure modes are independent. NPI is a statistical approach based on few assumptions, with inferences strongly based on data and with uncertainty quantified via lower and upper probabilities. The focus is on the lower and upper probabilities for the event that a future unit will fail due to a specific failure mode. The paper illustrates the effect of grouping different failure modes together, and some special cases and features are discussed. It is also shown that NPI can easily deal with competing risks data resulting from experiments with progressive censoring. Furthermore, new formulae are presented for the NPI lower and upper survival functions.

Keywords: competing risks; imprecise reliability; lower and upper probabilities; lower and upper survival functions; nonparametric predictive inference; progressive censoring; right-censored data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1243/1748006XJRR263

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