Models for Recurrent Events in Reliability and Survival Analysis

  • Edsel A. Peña
  • Myles Hollander
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Part of the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science book series (ISOR, volume 67)

Abstract

Existing models forrecurrent phenomena occurring in public health, biomedicine, reliability, engineering, economics, and sociology are reviewed. A new and general class of models for recurrent events is proposed. This class simultaneously takes into account intervention effects, effects of accumulating event occurrences, and effects of concomitant variables. It subsumes as special cases existing models for recurrent phenomena. The statistical identifiability issue for the proposed class of models is addressed.

Keywords

Counting process model identifiability renewal process repair models 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Edsel A. Peña
    • 1
  • Myles Hollander
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of StatisticsUniversity of South CarolinaColumbiaUSA
  2. 2.Department of StatisticsFlorida State UniversityTallahasseeUSA

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