Natural constructions of hazard and intensity functions Prof. Dave Percy (Salford) We investigate the reliability distributions for variants of standard hazard functions that model periodicity, impulses, amplifications, damping, orders and extrema. We also consider parallel-series system configurations and the resulting implications for intensity functions of complex systems, concluding with a ...

Probabilistic and statistical models for the occurrence of a recurrent event over time are described. These models have applicability in the reliability, engineering, biomedical and other areas where a series of events occurs for an experimental unit as time progresses. Nonparametric inference methods, in particular, the estimation of a relevant distribution function, are described.