MixtureInf (version 1.1)

timesoffailure: successive failure times

Description

The data set contains the times of successive failures for the air conditioning system of each member in a fleet of 13 Boeing 720 jet aircrafts. The data frame has 213 rows and 1 column.

Usage

#Load this data set for subsequent analysis:
data(timesoffailure)

Format

This data frame contains one column, x: pooled failure times about 213 observations.

References

Proschan, F. (1963). Theoretical explanation of observed decreasing failure rate. Technometrics 5, 375--83.

Examples

#fit a finite exponential mixture model of order 2 to this data set. 
data(timesoffailure)
pmle.exp(timesoffailure,2,1)