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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Reliability/Appliance.jmp.
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Select Analyze > Reliability and Survival > Life Distribution.
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Select Time Cycles and click Y, Time to Event.
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Select Cause Code and click Failure Cause.
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Select Likelihood as the Confidence Interval Method.
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Select Allow failure mode to use fixed parameter models.
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Figure 2.23 Fixed Parameter Model with Cause 1 Omitted
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Select Fix Parameter from the red triangle next to Parametric Estimate - Weibull.
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Select Weibull beta and type 2.
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Click Update.
Figure 2.24 Fixed Parameter Model with Weibull Beta Specified
In the Parametric Estimate - Weibull report, assuming β equals 2, the alpha parameter is estimated to be 22463.391. Now you can use this for the failure distribution for Cause=1.
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Deselect Omit for Cause 1.
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Click Update Model.
Figure 2.25 Updated Model Showing Cause 1
The steps for specifying a Bayesian model for a cause are similar to those described in Specify a Fixed Parameter Model as a Distribution for a Cause. Define the model in the desired Bayesian Estimation report found in the corresponding Parametric Estimate outline under Statistics in the Life Distribution report for the individual cause. See Bayesian Estimation - <Distribution Name>.
The steps for specifying a Weibayes model for a cause are similar to those described in Specify a Fixed Parameter Model as a Distribution for a Cause. Select the Fix Parameter option in the Parametric Estimate - Weibull outline under Statistics in the Life Distribution report for the cause. In the Fix Parameter report, check the Weibayes option. The Weibayes model is treated as a Bayesian model and a bootstrap sample is drawn from the posterior distribution of the parameter alpha. See Liu and Wang (2013).
To obtain an estimate of the mean remaining life at time t, m samples are drawn from the aggregated distribution conditioned on survival to time t. Their average is computed.
To compute the confidence interval, n samples of parameter estimates are drawn from either the asymptotic distributions of the MLEs, or the posterior distributions derived using Bayesian inference. For each sample of parameter values, an aggregated distribution is formed, from which m samples are drawn to compute a mean remaining life. The samples of n mean remaining life values are used to construct the confidence interval.
If the observation y is not censored, the saved value is given by

Help created on 7/12/2018