Sample specimens which remain after each stage of censoring continue to be observed until failure or until a subsequent stage of censoring. In this paper, maximum likelihood estimators and estimators ...

In this paper an estimator of the location parameter of the Weibull distribution is proposed which is independent of its scale and shape parameters. Several properties of this estimator are ...

This example considers a data set given in Lawless (1982). The data are the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last two observations are censored. Maximum ...

Example 36.3: Overcoming Convergence Problems by Specifying Initial Values This example illustrates the use of parameter initial value specification to help overcome convergence difficulties. The ...

What Weibull analysis can do Many management decisions involving life-cycle costs and maintenance can be made more confidently from reliability estimates generated by Weibull analysis. For example ...