A TEST FOR TREND CHANCE IN FAILURE RATE

  • Jeong, Hai-Sung (Department of Applied Statistics, Seowon University) ;
  • Na, Myung-Hwan (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Bang, Han-Sur (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Chosun University)
  • Published : 2001.03.01

Abstract

The problem of trend change in the failure rate is great interest in the reliability and survival analysis. In this paper we develop a test statistic for testing whether or not the failure rate changes its trend based on a complete sample. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to investigate the speed of convergence of the proposed test statistic.

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