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
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