The effect of intermittent exposure to risk on failure time distributions

1 June 1974

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability

Vol. 11 (2) , 310-319
https://doi.org/10.2307/3212752

Abstract

The relation is investigated between the distributions of the total time until failure and the time of exposure to risk until failure, for individuals who are at risk only intermittently during their lifetimes. A specific example is considered in the case of computer failures.

Keywords

INTERMITTENT EXPOSURE
EFFECT OF INTERMITTENT
RISK UNTIL FAILURE
EXPOSURE TO RISK
TIME DISTRIBUTIONS
COMPUTER FAILURES
TOTAL TIME
EXAMPLE IS CONSIDERED

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Statistical Analysis of Series of Events
Published by Springer Nature ,1966
A Branching Poisson Process Model for the Analysis of Computer Failure Patterns
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 1964