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Predicting the Number of Future Events

This article describes prediction methods for the number of future events from a population of units associated with an on-going time-to-event process. Examples include the prediction of warranty returns and the prediction of the number of future product failures that could cause serious threats to property or life. Important decisions such as whether a product recall should be mandated are often based on such predictions. Data, generally right-censored (and sometimes left truncated and right-censored), are used to estimate the parameters of a time-to-event distribution. This distribution can then be used to predict the number of events over future periods of time. Such predictions are sometimes called within-sample predictions and differ from other prediction problems considered in most of the prediction literature. This article shows that the plug-in (also known as estimative or naive) prediction method is not asymptotically correct (i.e., for large amounts of data, the coverage probability always fails to converge to the nominal confidence level). However, a commonly used prediction calibration method is shown to be asymptotically correct for within-sample predictions, and two alternative predictive-distribution-based methods that perform better than the calibration method are presented and justified. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

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Judul Seri

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION (JASA); Vol.117 No.539 September 2022

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Deskripsi Fisik

p. 1296-1310

Bahasa

English

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NONE

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Subjek

BOOTSTRAP
CALIBRATION
CENSORED DATA
PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION
BINOMIAL PREDICTAND

Info Detail Spesifik

https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2020.1850461

Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Qinglong Tian, Fanqi Meng, Daniel J. Nordman, William Q. Meeker

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