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On the estimation of parameters, survival functions, and hazard rates based on fuzzy life time data. (English) Zbl 1369.62276

Summary: Life time data analysis is regarded as one of the significant out-shoots of statistics. Classical statistical techniques reckon life time observations as precise numbers and solely cover variation among the observations. In fact, there are two types of uncertainty in data: variation among the observations and the fuzziness. To this effect, the analysis techniques, which do not consider fuzziness and are only based on precise life time observations, use incomplete information; hence lead to pseudo results. This study aimed at generalizing parameters estimation, survival functions, and hazard rates for fuzzy life time data.

MSC:

62N86 Fuzziness, and survival analysis and censored data
62F10 Point estimation
62N02 Estimation in survival analysis and censored data
62N05 Reliability and life testing
62F86 Parametric inference and fuzziness
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