Accelerated Life Testing of Motorettes

Description

The motors data frame has 40 rows and 3 columns. It describes an accelerated life test at each of four temperatures of 10 motorettes, and has rather discrete times.

Usage

data(motors)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

temp

the temperature (degrees C) of the test

time

the time in hours to failure or censoring at 8064 hours (= 336 days).

cens

an indicator variable for death

Source

Kalbfleisch, J. D. and Prentice, R. L. (1980) The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data. New York: Wiley.

taken from

Nelson, W. D. and Hahn, G. J. (1972) Linear regression of a regression relationship from censored data. Part 1 – simple methods and their application. Technometrics, 14, 247–276.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

Examples

library(survival)
plot(survfit(Surv(time, cens) ~ factor(temp), motors), conf.int = FALSE)
# fit Weibull model
motor.wei <- survreg(Surv(time, cens) ~ temp, motors)
summary(motor.wei)
# and predict at 130C
unlist(predict(motor.wei, data.frame(temp=130), se.fit = TRUE))

motor.cox <- coxph(Surv(time, cens) ~ temp, motors)
summary(motor.cox)
# predict at temperature 200
plot(survfit(motor.cox, newdata = data.frame(temp=200),
     conf.type = "log-log"))
summary( survfit(motor.cox, newdata = data.frame(temp=130)) )