Lecture plan and progress

R&H refers to relevant sections in Rausand & Høyland: System Reliability Theory: Models, Statistical Methods, and Applications, 2nd Edition. Wiley 2004.

Date R&H Topic Slides Notes/Supplementary reading
06.01 Introduction. Slides 1
06.01 2.3-2.5 General concepts for lifetime modeling.Slides 2
09.01 2.6, 2.9-2.14 Parametric families of Lifetime distributions. Slides 2, Slides 3
13.01 (2.17) Gumbel distribution. Log-location-scale families Slides 3, Slides 4 (revised 11.01) Extreme value distribution, More on log-location-scale families
16.01 11.1-11.3.3, 11.3.5 Censoring; empirical survival function; Kaplan-Meier estimator.Slides 5
20.01 11.3.5 More on Kaplan-Meier estimator; detailed look at MINITAB example. Slides 5
23.01 11.3.6 The Nelson-Aalen estimator. More properties of the exponential distribution Slides 6About the Exponential Distribution, Poisson Process, Total Time on Test and Barlow-Proschan's Test.
27.01 11.3.7 More properties of the exponential distribution, TTT-plot, the logrank test Slides 7
29.01 11.3.7 TTT-plot, Barlow-Proschan's test, the logrank test (continued). Slides 7
03.02 11.3.7 Finish TTT-plot, Barlow-Proschan's test. New: the logrank test. Start with inference in Parametric models Slides 7,Slides 8
06.02 11.4 Continue with inference in parametric models Slides 8,Slides 9 - draft
10.02 No lecture
13.02 11.4 Continue with inference in parametric models Slides 9 - draftThe standard confidence interval for positive parameters.,Some likelihood theory.
17.02 11.4 Continue with inference in parametric models. The Weibull model. Slides 9 - draft
20.02 11.4 Continue with inference in parametric models. Log-location-scale models. Threshold models (3-parameter Weibull).Slides 9 - draft, Slides 10
24.02 11.4 Exact confidence interval for exponential distribution and type II censoring. Survival regression modelingSlides 10, Slides 11
27.02 Parametric survival regression. Weibull regression. Cox regression.Slides 10, Slides 11, Slides 12
03.03 Cox regression.Slides 12
06.03 Cox-regression (cont.) Slides 12, Slides 13 Book chapter on survival regression
10.03 Discussion of Obligatory Exercise 1; Final lesson on Cox regression
13.03 12 Case study on Cox regression; Accelerated life testing Slides 14 Case study in Cox regression: Medical data
17.03 7.1, 7.2.1, 7.3.1, 7.4.1, 7.4.2 Recurrent events and repairable systems. The nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP). Slides 15 Case study in Cox regression: Reliability
20.03 7.4.3 Nonparametric estimation in repairable systems. Parametric estimation in NHPPs Slides 15, Slides 16-draft
24.03 No lecture
27.03 7.4.4 Parametric estimation in NHPPs Slides 16-draft
31.03 7.4.5 Trend testing in NHPPs Slides 16-draft, Slides 17
03.04 No lecture Vaclav will be in Auditorium B1 from 8:15 to 10:00 to guide the work With Obligatory 2
07.04 Go through exam exercises (in this order, as far as we get today and next time):
2009 Problem 2
2012 Problems 1,2,4
2010 Problem 2,3
2013 Problem 1
10.04 Continue with exam exercises - final lecture.
2014-03-30, Bo Henry Lindqvist