title: Methods for the estimation of failure distributions and rates from automobile warranty data.
abstract: We consider the occurrence of warranty claims for automobiles when both age and mileage accumulation may affect failure. The presence of both age and mileage limits on warranties creates interesting problems for the analysis of failures. We propose a family of models that relates failure to time and mileage accumulation. Methods for fitting the models based on warranty data and supplementary information about mileage accumulation are presented and illustrated on some real data. The general problem of modelling failures in equipment when both time and usage are factors is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lawless
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cao
mesh_terms: D001336:Automobiles; D004868:Equipment Failure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D016019:Survival Analysis