P. Coolen-Schrijner
Adaptive age replacement strategies based on nonparametric predictive inference
Coolen-Schrijner, P.; Coolen, F.P.A.
Authors
F.P.A. Coolen
Abstract
We consider an age replacement problem using nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) for the lifetime of a future unit. Based on n observed failure times, NPI provides lower and upper bounds for the survival function for a future lifetime Xn+1, which are lower and upper survival functions in the theory of interval probability, and which lead to upper and lower cost functions, respectively, for age replacement based on the renewal reward theorem. Optimal age replacement times for Xn+1 follow by minimizing these cost functions. Although the renewal reward theorem implicitly assumes that the corresponding optimal strategy will be used for a long period, we study the effect on this strategy when the observed value for Xn+1, which is either an observed failure time or a right-censored observation, becomes available. This is possible due to the fully adaptive nature of our nonparametric approach, and the next optimal strategy will be for Xn+2. We compare the optimal strategies for Xn+1 and Xn+2 both analytically and via simulation studies. Our NPI-based approach is fully adaptive to the data, to which it adds only few structural assumptions. We discuss the possible use of this approach, and indeed the wider importance of the conclusions of this study to situations where one wishes to combine the statistical aspects of estimating a lifetime distribution with the more traditional operational research approach of determining optimal replacement strategies for lifetime distributions that are assumed to be known.
Citation
Coolen-Schrijner, P., & Coolen, F. (2004). Adaptive age replacement strategies based on nonparametric predictive inference. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55(12), 1281-1297. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601764
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2004-12 |
Deposit Date | Nov 18, 2008 |
Journal | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Print ISSN | 0160-5682 |
Electronic ISSN | 1476-9360 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 12 |
Pages | 1281-1297 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601764 |
Keywords | Adaptive age replacement strategies, Nonparametric predictive inference, Renewal reward theorem. |
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