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TMA4275 LIFETIME ANALYSIS
SPRING 2012


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Messages 24.04.2012: Final curriculum

18.04.2012: No lecture tomorrow.

16.03.2012:IMPORTANT- The details about second obligatory exercise are now available in exercise section.

17-02-2012: The first obligatory exercise is now available in exercise section. The deadline is March 05, 15:00.
There will be no lectures on 20 and 23 February, instead these hours are for guidance in the obligatory exercise. Vaclav Slimacek will be available in the lab. Computer lab nullrommet is booked for the following:
Monday, 20-02-212, 15:00-17:00
Thursday, 23-02-2012, 8:00-10:00

12-02-2012 No lecture tomorrow.

27-01-2012: We need 3 students for reference group. It would be nice to have one from industrial mathematics program, one from MSRAMS and one from other program of study. Send me an e-mail if you want to be a member of it.

26-01-2012:IMPORTANT: "There has been a mistake with respect to the exam date for TMA4275, which now has been corrected by the exam office. The new date for the TMA42745 exam is May 30 at 9.00"

23-01-2012:IMPORTANT: Computerlab "Banachrommet (380B) is booked for exercise sessions from week5.
The students those who do not follow the industrial mathematics program, should send me their username, which will then be forwarded to the admin of computer labs, so as to get access to the computers.

16-01-2012: The first exercise can be found here pdf.

09-01-2011: Topics discussed in lectures can be found under "Progress" and Excercise details can be found under "Exercises".

20-12-2011: First lecture is on Monday 9, January 2012 ,15:15-17:00 in F3.

General information Lecturer
Rupali Akerkar
Email : akerkar@math.ntnu.no
Room 1124, 11th floor, Sentralbygg II.

Teaching Assistant
Vaclav Slimacek
Email : Vaclav.Slimacek@math.ntnu.no
Room 1138, 11th floor, Sentralbygg II.

Lectures
Mondays 15:15-17:00 in F3
Thursdays 8:15-10:00 in KJL4

Exercises
Tuesdays 16:15-17:00 in F3

Course Book
The main source will be the book Rausand & Høyland: System Reliability Theory: Models, Statistical Methods, and Applications, 2nd Edition. Wiley 2004.

Notes/copies about certain topics will be handed out. Foils from the lectures can be downloaded as pdf-files from this website.

Supplementary reading (available at Tapir):

Jayant V. Deshpande & Sudha G. Purohit: Life time data: statistical models and methods, World Scientific, 2005.

For background in basic statistics: Walpole, Myers, Myers and Ye: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Prentice Hall.

For background in stochastic processes: Sheldon M. Ross: Introduction to probability models, Academic Press.

Exam

25 May 2011. Written 4 hours (9.00-13.00)

Examination aids: C
Specified, written and handwritten examination support materials are permitted. A specified, simple calculator is permitted.

Permitted aids at the exam are:

  • Calculator HP30S with empty memory.
  • Statistiske tabeller og formler (Tapir forlag)
  • K. Rotman: Matematisk formelsamling
  • One yellow paper (A4 with stamp) with your own formulas and notes
You can get the yellow A4 paper with stamp at the department office of Department of Mathematical Sciences, 7th floor, Central building 2.

Progress 23-04-2012: Lecture23: went through exam June 2010 and discussed the final curriculum.

12-04-2012: Lecture22: went through exam May 2009.

29-03-2011: Lecture21: Discussed the Military Handbook Test. Tests for trend in repairable systems when there are several systems. Some theory for renewal processes. From lecture slides-21.

26-03-2012: Lecture20: more on parametric estimation in NHPP models. Likelihood construction and MLE. Detailed analysis of power law NHPP. Started tests for trend in repairable systems. Discussed the Laplace Test. From lecture slides-20

22-03-2012: Lecture19: more on recurrent events, finished non-parametric analysis and started with parametric analysis in NHPP models.

19-03-2012: Lecture18: finished accelerated life testing (Ch. 12 in the book). From lecture slides-18 and data . Started Recurrent events and repairable systems.

15-03-2012: Lecture17: Disscussed a case study in reliability engineering. Started accelerated life testing (Ch. 12 in the book)

12-03-2012: Lecture16: Parametric survival regression - Weibull model. Disscussed analysis of liver cirrhosis data. From lecture slides-16(a) and slides-16(b), also disscussed a case study in medical statistics.

08-03-2012: Lecture15: Analysis of lifetimes with covariates.continue with Cox regression. Real data example with comparison of two groups from Ansell & Phillips. Testing for significant coefficients. Note that the copies from Ansell & Phillips (A &P) that are referred to in the foils, is the "Copies on survival regression etc. extra slides on the simple cox-example .

05-03-2012: Lecture14: Analysis of lifetimes with covariates.continue with Cox regression. The partial likelihood. Simple example for hand calculation. From lecture slides-14.

01-03-2012: Lecture13: Finished log-location-scale models. From lecture slides-13, Analysis of lifetimes with covariates. Residuals. Started with Cox proportional hazards model. Please read copies on survival regression etc. from a book by Ansell and Phillips.

27-02-2012: Lecture12: continue with parametric inference. Exact confidence interval for expoential distribution. Started with log-location-scale models.

16-02-2012: Lecture11: Inference in Weibull distribution. From lecture slides-11, R function for log-minus-logplot and R function for PPplot
Download copies from book: On parametric inference in lifetime models

09-02-2012: Lecture10: continue with parametric inference. Example from exponential distribution. Confidence intervals for exponential distribution with different parametrizations. From lecture slides-10.

06-02-2012: Lecture9: continue with parametric inference. Construction of likelihood and MLE. Example from exponential distribution.Confidence intervals for exponential distribution.Download copies from books: On likelihood construction and Download note: The standard confidence interval for positive parameters

02-02-2012: Lecture8: Diagnostic plots : 4ways. Parametric inference in lifetime models. Construction of likelihood. From lecture slides-8

30-01-2012: Lecture7: TTT plots and Barlow Proschan's test. Lecture slides slides-7 , rcode-TTTplot

26-01-2012: Lecture6: more about Nelson-Aalen estimators. TTT plots...to be continued.

23-01-2012: Lecture5: Nelson-Aalen estimator and some properties of exponential distribution. Lecture slides slides-5

19-01-2012: Lecture4: Kaplan-Meier estimator and log rank test. Slides to this are slides-4 and Logrank test

16-01-2012: Lecture3: Censoring, Non-parametric estimation of survival/reliability function.(to be continued).
For a detailed definition and discussion of independent censoring you may read Chapter 1.3 in Kalbfleisch and Prentice (The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data, Wiley 2002). Disregard the x occurring there.

12-01-2012: Lecture2: Location-Scale-family. R.codes for exponential and Weibull dist., Minitab graphs and R-codes for log-normal dist.

09-01-2012: Lecture1: discussed introduction, basic concepts of lifetime analysis, exponential distribution.



Exercises Check the link Exercises
Data files Ball bearings data

example11.4

example11.8

example11.15

Earlier exams May 2011

June 2010

May 2009 , Solution

June 2008 , Solution

May 2006 , Solution

June 2005 , Solution

June 2004 , Solution

August 2003 , Solution

May 2003 , Solution

May 2002 , Solution

May 2001 , Solution, Solution exercise 3c

August 2000 , Solution

May 2000 , Solution

Miscellaneous Minitab Tutorial

R Tutorial

Minitab Macros