Of pacemakers and statistics: the actuarial method extended.
Pacemakers cease functioning because of either natural battery exhaustion (nbe) or component failure (cf). A study of four series of pacemakers shows that a simple ex- tension of the actuarial method, so as to incorporate Normal statistics, makes possible a quantitative differentiation between the t...
| Publicado en: | Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 8 - 17 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan1980
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| Sumario: | Pacemakers cease functioning because of either natural battery exhaustion (nbe) or component failure (cf). A study of four series of pacemakers shows that a simple ex- tension of the actuarial method, so as to incorporate Normal statistics, makes possible a quantitative differentiation between the two modes of failure. This involves the separation of the overall failure probability density function PDF(t) into constituent parts pdfnbe(t) and pdfcf(t). The approach should allow a meaningful comparison of the characteristics of different pacemaker types. |
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