• DocumentCode
    1249491
  • Title

    Bayes computation for reliability estimation

  • Author

    Akman, Olcay ; Huwang, Longcheen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. & Stat., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, USA
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    52
  • Lastpage
    55
  • Abstract
    Bayes estimation of complicated functions requires simpler estimation techniques due to the mathematical difficulties involved in the classical Bayes approach. Bayes estimation enjoys many approximation techniques and computational methods like Metropolis, and Gibbs sampler. Bayes estimation of the reliability of a mixture inverse Gaussian distribution requires a numerical approach since the calculations are immensely difficult from the exact Bayes point of view. Lack of full conditional prior distributions for all 3 parameters of this particular case makes the use of Gibbs sampler inefficient. Application of the rejection method, however, is reasonable since it is very simple to implement without any constraints on the prior distributions or on the hyper-parameters
  • Keywords
    Bayes methods; Gaussian distribution; approximation theory; reliability theory; Bayes estimation; Gibbs sampler; Metropolis; approximation techniques; complicated functions; conditional prior distributions; mixture inverse Gaussian distribution; numerical approach; rejection method; reliability estimation; Diseases; Distributed computing; Estimation theory; Gaussian distribution; History; Life estimation; Life testing; Maximum likelihood estimation; Sampling methods; State estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/24.589926
  • Filename
    589926