Lifetimes

Hazard rates, lifetime distributions and estimating them from test data.

Halley’s life table and the hazard rate (1693)

Halley's life table and the hazard rate (1693)

Poisson’s law of rare failures (1837)

Poisson's law of rare failures (1837)

Weibull’s distribution and the Weibull plot (1951)

Weibull's distribution and the Weibull plot (1951)

Epstein and Sobel’s exponential life testing (1953)

Epstein and Sobel's exponential life testing (1953)

Kaplan and Meier’s product-limit estimator (1958)

Kaplan and Meier's product-limit estimator (1958)