The competing risks analysis for parallel and series systems using Type-II progressive censoring

Leila Amiri, Mojtaba Ganjali, Reza Hashemi and Mojtaba Khazaei

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2020, vol. 49, issue 22, 5598-5612

Abstract: Recently, the study of the lifetime of systems in reliability and survival analysis in the presence of several causes of failure (competing risks) has attracted attention in the literature. In this paper, series and parallel systems with exponential lifetime for each item of the system are considered. Several causes of failure independently affect lifetime distributions and observations of failure times of the systems are considered under progressive Type-II censored scheme. For series systems, the maximum likelihood estimates of parameters are computed and confidence intervals for parameters of the model are obtained using Fisher information matrix. For parallel systems, the generalized EM algorithm which uses the Newton-Raphson algorithm inside the EM algorithm is used to compute the maximum likelihood estimates of parameters. Also, the standard errors of the maximum likelihood estimates are computed by using the supplemented EM algorithm. The simulation study confirms the good performance of the introduced approach.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2019.1620779

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