• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.121-133
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• 2002

This paper concerns informative censoring and some of the difficulties it creates in analysis of survival data. For analyzing censored data, misclassification of informative censoring into random censoring is often unavoidable. It is worthwhile to investigate the impact of neglecting informative censoring on the estimation of the parameters of the proportional hazards model. The proposed model includes a primary failure which can be censored informatively or randomly and a followup failure which may be censored randomly. Simulation shows that the loss is about 30% with regard to the confidence interval if we neglect the informative censoring.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.241-250
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• 2016

In this paper, we consider statistical inferences on the estimation of the parameters of a Weibull distribution when data are randomly censored. Maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) and approximate MLEs are derived to estimate the parameters. We consider two cases for the censoring model: the assumption that the censoring distribution does not involve any parameters of interest and a censoring distribution that follows a Weibull distribution. A simulation study is conducted to compare the performances of the estimators. The result shows that the MLEs and the approximate MLEs are similar in terms of biases and mean square errors; in addition, the assumption of the censoring model has a strong influence on the estimation of scale parameter.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1997-2003
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• 2010

평균잔여수명은 공학, 의학, 생존분석, 사회과학 등 많은 분야에서 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 특히 시스템의 신뢰성연구에서 시스템의 갑작스런 중지는 심각한 문제를 초래하기 때문에, 부품에 대한 평균잔여수명 추정은 매우 중요하다. 그래서 많은 상황변수를 고려한 시뮬레이션 연구가 되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 임의절단(random censoring) 에서 가지 평균잔여수명 추정기법을 소개하고 3가지 와이블 수명분포와 6가지 절단분포의 조합에서 시뮬레이션하였다. 또한 이들의 성과를 편의(bias)와 MSE측면에서 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.225-230
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• 1997

We, in this paper, propose an estimator of mean residual life function by using the residual survival function under random censoring and prove the uniform consistency and weak convergence result of this estimator. Also an example is illustrated by the real data.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.647-658
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• 2018

In this paper, we study statistical inferences on the maximum likelihood estimation of a normal distribution when data are randomly censored. Likelihood equations are derived assuming that the censoring distribution does not involve any parameters of interest. The maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of the censored normal distribution do not have an explicit form, and it should be solved in an iterative way. We consider a simple method to derive an explicit form of the approximate MLEs with no iterations by expanding the nonlinear parts of the likelihood equations in Taylor series around some suitable points. The points are closely related to Kaplan-Meier estimators. By using the same method, the observed Fisher information is also approximated to obtain asymptotic variances of the estimators. An illustrative example is presented, and a simulation study is conducted to compare the performances of the estimators. In addition to their explicit form, the approximate MLEs are as efficient as the MLEs in terms of variances.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2001

In this paper, we consider a simple method for testing the assumption of independent censoring on the basis of a Cox proportional hazards regression model with a time-dependent covariate. This method involves a two-stage sampling in which a random subset of censored observations is selected and followed-up until their true survival times are observed. Lee and Wolfe(1998) proposed an adjusted estimate of the survivor function for the dependent censoring under a proportional hazards alternative. This paper extends their result to obtain a bootstrap confidence interval for the adjusted survivor function under the dependent censoring. The proposed procedure is illustrated with an example of a clinical trial for lung cancer analysed in Lee and Wolfe(1998).

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제2권
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• pp.45-62
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• 1991

신뢰수명의 검정이나 임상실험에서 대상물에 대한 관측치를 충분히 얻기 위해서는 많은 시간과 경비가 필요하거나 현실적인 제한으로 인하여 관측이 불가능한 경우가 흔히 있다. 이러한 이유로 점진적 임의중단법에 의하여 얻어진 관측치를 이용한 생존함수의 추정은 현실적으로 매우 중요하다고 하겠다. 연구에서는 점진적 임의중단된 자료를 기초로 스플라인함수를 이용하여 생존함수의 비모수적 최우추정량을 제안하고 그것의 성질과 효율성을 비교 연구한다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.431-438
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• 2014

Type I hybrid censoring scheme is the combination of the Type I and Type II censoring scheme introduced by Epstein (1954). Epstein considered a hybrid censoring sampling scheme in which the life testing experiment is terminated at a random time $T^*$ which is the time that happens rst among the following two; time of the kth unit is observed or time of the experiment length set in advance. The likelihood function of this scheme from the Rayleigh distribution cannot be solved in a explicit solution and thus we approximate the function by the Taylor series expansion. In this process, we propose four dierent methods of expansion skill.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.99-106
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• 1999

In this paper, the spline hazard rate model to the randomly censored data is introduced. The unknown hazard rate function is expressed as a linear combination of B-splines which is constrained to be linear(or constant) in tails. We determine the coefficients of the linear combination by maximizing the likelihood function. The number of knots are determined by Bayesian Information Criterion. Examples using simulated data are used to illustrate the performance of this method under presenting the random censoring.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.405-412
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• 2003

In this paper, we consider two components system which the lifetimes have a bivariate weibull distribution with random censored data. Here the censoring time is independent of the lifetimes of the components. We construct large sample tests for independence and symmetry between two-components based on maximum likelihood estimators and the natural estimators. Also we present a numerical study.