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A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework
To study lifetimes of certain engineering processes, a lifetime model which can accommodate the nature of such processes is desired. The mixture models of underlying lifetime distributions are intuitively more appropriate and appealing to model the heterogeneous nature of process as compared to simp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25993475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126183 |
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author | Aslam, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Hussain, Zawar Al-Zahrani, Bander |
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description | To study lifetimes of certain engineering processes, a lifetime model which can accommodate the nature of such processes is desired. The mixture models of underlying lifetime distributions are intuitively more appropriate and appealing to model the heterogeneous nature of process as compared to simple models. This paper is about studying a 3-component mixture of the Rayleigh distributionsin Bayesian perspective. The censored sampling environment is considered due to its popularity in reliability theory and survival analysis. The expressions for the Bayes estimators and their posterior risks are derived under different scenarios. In case the case that no or little prior information is available, elicitation of hyperparameters is given. To examine, numerically, the performance of the Bayes estimators using non-informative and informative priors under different loss functions, we have simulated their statistical properties for different sample sizes and test termination times. In addition, to highlight the practical significance, an illustrative example based on a real-life engineering data is also given. |
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spelling | pubmed-44390702015-05-29 A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework Aslam, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Hussain, Zawar Al-Zahrani, Bander PLoS One Research Article To study lifetimes of certain engineering processes, a lifetime model which can accommodate the nature of such processes is desired. The mixture models of underlying lifetime distributions are intuitively more appropriate and appealing to model the heterogeneous nature of process as compared to simple models. This paper is about studying a 3-component mixture of the Rayleigh distributionsin Bayesian perspective. The censored sampling environment is considered due to its popularity in reliability theory and survival analysis. The expressions for the Bayes estimators and their posterior risks are derived under different scenarios. In case the case that no or little prior information is available, elicitation of hyperparameters is given. To examine, numerically, the performance of the Bayes estimators using non-informative and informative priors under different loss functions, we have simulated their statistical properties for different sample sizes and test termination times. In addition, to highlight the practical significance, an illustrative example based on a real-life engineering data is also given. Public Library of Science 2015-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4439070/ /pubmed/25993475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126183 Text en © 2015 Aslam et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Aslam, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Hussain, Zawar Al-Zahrani, Bander A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework |
title | A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework |
title_full | A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework |
title_fullStr | A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework |
title_full_unstemmed | A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework |
title_short | A 3-Component Mixture of Rayleigh Distributions: Properties and Estimation in Bayesian Framework |
title_sort | 3-component mixture of rayleigh distributions: properties and estimation in bayesian framework |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25993475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126183 |
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