Mazucheli, J.; Achcar, J. A.; Coelho-Barros, E. A.; … - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 36 (2009) 9, pp. 1029-1036
In this paper we introduce a parametric model for handling lifetime data where an early lifetime can be related to the infant-mortality failure or to the wear processes but we do not know which risk is responsible for the failure. The maximum likelihood approach and the sampling-based approach...