Abstract
Process capability (PC) indices measure the ability of a process of interest to meet the desired specifications under certain restrictions. There are a variety of capability indices available in literature for different interest variables such as weights, lengths, thickness, and the life time of items among many others. The goal of this article is to study the generalized capability indices from the Bayesian view point under different symmetric and asymmetric loss functions for the simple and mixture of generalized lifetime models. For our study purposes, we have covered a simple and two component mixture of Maxwell distribution as a special case of the generalized class of models. A comparative discussion of the PC with the mixture models under Laplace and inverse Rayleigh are also included. Bayesian point estimation of maintenance performance of the system is also part of the study (considering the Maxwell failure lifetime model and the repair time model). A real-life example is also included to illustrate the procedural details of the proposed method.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 832-852 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Statistics |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2014 |
Keywords
- Bayesian estimation
- Maxwell distribution
- informative and non-informative priors
- posterior risk
- process capability indices
- relative risk
- sensitivity analysis
- squared error and precautionary loss functions
- system availability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty