pava_ifr: PAVA order restriction under increasing failure rate (IFR)

In RPEXE.RPEXT: Reduced Piecewise Exponential Estimate/Test Software

Description

This function imposes the PAVA IFR order restriction by eliminating change-points violating the restriction

Usage

pava_ifr(time_die,ttot,deaths)

Arguments

time_die	event times
ttot	the total time on test (ttot) corresponding to the event times
deaths	the number of deaths at each event time

Value

time2 the event times after PAVA ttot2 the corresponding ttot after PAVA deaths2 the corresponding number of deaths after PAVA

Examples

data(pava_dfrd)
t_d = pava_dfrd[,1]
t = pava_dfrd[,2]
d = pava_dfrd[,3]
pava_ifr(t_d, t, d)

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