maskedInferenceIIDExponential {ReliabilityTheory}

Inference for Masked iid System Lifetimes, Exponential Components

Description

Performs Bayesian inference via a signature based data augmentation MCMC scheme for masked system lifetime data for Exponentially distributed component lifetimes. The underlying assumption is iid components and iid systems.

Usage

maskedInferenceIIDExponential(t, signature, iter, priorShape, priorScale)

Arguments

t

a vector of masked system lifetimes.

signature

the signature vector of the system/network for which inference is performed. It may be a list of signatures which results in topological inference on the system design being jointly performed over the collection of signatures provided.

iter

number of MCMC iterations to perform.

priorShape

the shape parameter of the Gamma prior of the Exponential rate.

priorScale

the scale parameter of the Gamma prior of the Exponential rate.

Details

This is a full implementation of the signature based data augmented MCMC scheme described in Aslett (2012) for iid systems with Exponential component lifetimes.

Thus, components are taken to have Exponential lifetimes and be arranged into some system. However, only the failure time of the system is observed, not those of the components or indeed which components were failed at the system failure time. By specifying a Gamma prior distribution on the component lifetime Exponential rate parameter via priorShape and priorScale, this function then produces MCMC samples from the posterior of the rate parameter.

Additionally, if one does not know the system design, then it is possible to pass a list of many system signatures in the signature argument, in which case the topology of the system is jointly inferred with the parameters.

Value

If a single signature vector is provided above, then a data frame with a single column of MCMC samples from the posterior of the rate parameter are returned.

If a list of signature vectors is provided above, then a list is returned containing two items:

topology

A vector of posterior samples from the discrete marginal posterior distribution of topologies provided in the signature list.

parameters

A data frame with a single column of MCMC samples from the posterior of the rate parameter.

Note

Please feel free to email [e-mail] with any queries or if you encounter errors when running this function.

Author(s)

Louis J.M. Aslett [e-mail] (https://www.louisaslett.com/)

References

Aslett, L. J. M. (2012), MCMC for Inference on Phase-type and Masked System Lifetime Models, PhD Thesis, Trinity College Dublin.

See Also

computeSystemSignature

Examples

# Some masked system lifetime data for a system with Exponential component
# lifetime, rate=3.14
t <- c(0.2696, 0.3613, 0.0256, 0.1287, 0.2305, 0.1565, 0.2484, 0.7482,
0.1748, 0.1805, 0.1985, 0.0799, 0.2843, 0.2392, 0.2151, 0.1177,
0.1278, 0.4189, 0.4374, 0.0931, 0.2846, 0.0357, 0.1809, 0.2077,
0.5211, 0.4935, 0.1464, 0.0297, 0.5429, 0.1294, 0.7089, 0.5534,
0.1183, 0.2628, 0.0481, 0.0518, 0.0533, 0.3595, 0.0767, 0.2606,
0.1005, 0.227, 0.01, 0.0947, 0.1248, 0.2288, 0.1422, 0.233, 0.1428,
0.2043)

# Load the signatures of order 4 simply connected coherent systems -- the data
# above correspond to simulations from system number 3
data(sccsO4)

# Perform inference on the rate parameter:
# NB this will take some time to run
samps <- maskedInferenceIIDExponential(t, sccsO4[[3]]$signature, 2000,
priorShape=9, priorScale=0.5)

# Or perform inference on rate parameter and topology jointly, taking as candidate
# set all possible simply connected coherent systems of order 4:
# NB this will take some time to run
samps <- maskedInferenceIIDExponential(t, sccsO4, 2000, priorShape=9,
priorScale=0.5)