scholarly journals Job Tenure of Two Cohorts of Young German Men 1979 - 1990: An Analysis of the (West-)German Employment Statistic Register Sample Concerning Multivariate Failure Times and Unobserved Heterogeneity

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Bellmann ◽  
Stefan Bender ◽  
Ulrich Hornsteiner
Keyword(s):  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Job Tenure ◽  
The West ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Multivariate Failure Times

Some Issues Related to Estimation of Component Life Time Distributions in a Coherent System

1997 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Anup Dewanji
Keyword(s):  
Nonparametric Estimation ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Dependence Structure ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Coherent Systems ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Multivariate Failure Times ◽  
Autopsy Data

Recently, some interest has been focussed on the estimation of component life time distributions in coherent systems. For simplicity, most of the work assume independence between different component life times. Also, some specific dependence structure has been dealt with in some limited cases. In this work, we introduce a unified way of modelling the component life time distributions in a coherent system through the framework of multivariate failure times, which includes some arbitrary nature of dependence. Under independence, both parametric and nonparametric estimation of component life time distributions are discussed with continuous monitoring data and autopsy data as well. A specific dependence structure is also considered for this purpose.

A Non-parametric Frailty Model for Temporally Clustered Multivariate Failure Times

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommi Harkanen ◽  
Hannu Hausen ◽  
Jorma I. Virtanen ◽  
Elja Arjas
Keyword(s):  
Frailty Model ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Multivariate Failure Times ◽  
Parametric Frailty ◽  
Non Parametric

Analysis of multivariate failure times in the presence of selection bias with application to breast cancer

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Leclerc ◽  
Antonis C. Antoniou ◽  
Jacques Simard ◽  
Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Multivariate Failure Times

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

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