Gorjian, Nima; Ma, Lin; Mittinty, Murthy; Yarlagadda, Prasad - 2009
probability of failure in future time are essential. In traditional reliability models, the lifetime of assets is estimated using … different risk factors, which are called covariates. The fundamental notion in reliability theory is the failure time of a … models in both the reliability and biomedical fields. One of the major purposes of this expository paper is to synthesise …