Research Article

Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data

Volume: 6 Number: 2 December 31, 2024
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Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data

Abstract

Railway maintenance and efficient operation has been an important issue for a safe rail traffic. When an unexpected malfunction occurs on various components on the train or on the railway system, it may result in unscheduled maintenance which may cause the rail traffic to stop. In this paper, we study the random failure model of some frequently malfunctioning high-speed railway equipment based on the statistical analysis of the real data of failure records in Turkey. Popular distribution functions and parameter estimation methods have been used considering that the data has a small sample size, and it may contain outliers. In this study, we showed that for the case of a few numbers of failure data, the L-moments method gives effective results when there exists no outlier and the robust-M method gives effective results when there exists an outlier or outliers.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Computational Statistics, Theory of Sampling

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 31, 2024

Submission Date

October 21, 2024

Acceptance Date

December 24, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 6 Number: 2

APA
Yavuz, H. S., & Alayoğlu, İ. (2024). Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data. Nicel Bilimler Dergisi, 6(2), 181-207. https://doi.org/10.51541/nicel.1571005
AMA
1.Yavuz HS, Alayoğlu İ. Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data. NBD. 2024;6(2):181-207. doi:10.51541/nicel.1571005
Chicago
Yavuz, Hasan Serhan, and İsmail Alayoğlu. 2024. “Robust Lifetime Estimation With Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data”. Nicel Bilimler Dergisi 6 (2): 181-207. https://doi.org/10.51541/nicel.1571005.
EndNote
Yavuz HS, Alayoğlu İ (December 1, 2024) Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data. Nicel Bilimler Dergisi 6 2 181–207.
IEEE
[1]H. S. Yavuz and İ. Alayoğlu, “Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data”, NBD, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 181–207, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.51541/nicel.1571005.
ISNAD
Yavuz, Hasan Serhan - Alayoğlu, İsmail. “Robust Lifetime Estimation With Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data”. Nicel Bilimler Dergisi 6/2 (December 1, 2024): 181-207. https://doi.org/10.51541/nicel.1571005.
JAMA
1.Yavuz HS, Alayoğlu İ. Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data. NBD. 2024;6:181–207.
MLA
Yavuz, Hasan Serhan, and İsmail Alayoğlu. “Robust Lifetime Estimation With Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data”. Nicel Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 181-07, doi:10.51541/nicel.1571005.
Vancouver
1.Hasan Serhan Yavuz, İsmail Alayoğlu. Robust Lifetime Estimation with Small Sample Sized High Speed Railway ETCS Component Data. NBD. 2024 Dec. 1;6(2):181-207. doi:10.51541/nicel.1571005