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Many modern products are highly reliable, often exhibiting long lifetimes. As a result, conducting experiments under normal operating conditions can be prohibitively time-consuming to collect sufficient failure data for robust statistical…
Nondestructive one-shot device (NOSD) testing plays a crucial role in engineering, particularly in the reliability assessment of high-stakes systems such as aerospace components, medical devices, and semiconductor technologies. Accurate…
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A one-shot device is a unit that operates only once, after which it is either destroyed or needs to be rebuilt. For this type of device, the operational status can only be assessed at a specific inspection time, determining whether failure…
In the literature, the reliability analysis of one-shot devices is found under accelerated life testing in the presence of various stress factors. The application of one-shot devices can be extended to the bio-medical field, where we often…
Accelerated life-tests (ALTs) are used for inferring lifetime characteristics of highly reliable products. In particular, step-stress ALTs increase the stress level at which units under test are subject at certain pre-fixed times, thus…
One-shot devices analysis involves an extreme case of interval censoring, wherein one can only know whether the failure time is either before or after the test time. Some kind of one-shot devices do not get destroyed when tested, and so can…
One-shot devices data represent an extreme case of interval censoring.Some kind of one-shot units do not get destroyed when tested, and so, survival units can continue within the test providing extra information about their lifetime.…
This paper presents a robust alternative to the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) for the Polytomous Logistic Regression Model (PLRM), known as the family of minimum R\`enyi Pseudodistance (RP) estimators. The proposed minimum RP…
The semi-parametric Cox proportional hazards regression model has been widely used for many years in several applied sciences. However, a fully parametric proportional hazards model, if appropriately assumed, can often lead to more…