http://blogs.najah.edu/author/amani-arman An-Najah Blogs :: Amani Arman en-us Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:01:32 IDT Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:01:32 IDT [email protected] [email protected] http://blogs.najah.edu/staff/amani-arman/article/Estimating-the-Time-to-Failure-Distribution-of-a-Linear-Degradation-Model-Using-a-Bayesian-ApproachPublished Articles In this paper we consider two types of failure data namely grouped and non-grouped which can be motivated from a linear mixed degradation model We propose a Bayesian approach to estimate the parameters of the time-to-failure distribution and its percentiles A simulation study conducted to study the performance of the proposed method showed that in terms of the mean squares error and the length of the bootstrap confidence intervals the behavior of the proposed method is satisfactory Also it showed that the Bayesian approach with non-grouped data is better than the Bayesian approach with a grouped data Application to a real data set is given