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
Link To Document :
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