An imputation-based approach for parameter estimation in the presence of ambiguous censoring with application in industrial supply chain

Details An imputation-based approach for parameter estimation in the presence of ambiguous censoring with application in industrial supply chain An imputation-based approach for parameter estimation in the presence of ambiguous censoring with application in industrial supply chain

2011-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/1101.1365v1

Annals of Applied Statistics 2010, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1976-1999

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS348 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Ins

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10.1214/10-AOAS348

This paper describes a novel approach based on "proportional imputation" when identical units produced in a batch have random but independent installation and failure times. The current problem is motivated by a real life industrial production-delivery supply chain where identical units are shipped after production to a third party warehouse and then sold at a future date for possible installation. Due to practical limitations, at any given time point, the exact installation as well as the failure times are known for only those units which have failed within that time frame after the installation. Hence, in-house reliability engineers are presented with a very limited, as well as partial, data to estimate different model parameters related to installation and failure distributions. In reality, other units in the batch are generally not utilized due to lack of proper statistical methodology, leading to gross misspecification. In this paper we have introduced a likelihood based parametric and computationally efficient solution to overcome this problem.

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