Nonparametric Estimation of Lifetime Distributions from a Record of Failures and Follow-Ups
由故障与随访记录非参数估计寿命分布
This article deals with the estimation problem of the survival function of an industrial product in which the real operating time is different from its actual calendar time. In an observational study of the product, sometimes only the time until failure is observable from the repair requests made by the owner, but nonfailure times themselves are not. The generalized maximum likelihood estimator of the survival function is presented, and its consistency, asymptotic normality,…