Nonparametric Growth Curve - Retirement
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Stat > Reliability/Survival > Repairable System Analysis > Nonparametric Growth Curve > Retirement

Use to specify the retirement information.

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Retirement time at largest time for system Choose if the largest time for each system is the retirement time for the system.

Failure truncated systems: Choose if you have failure-truncated data only; that is, the system is retired immediately upon the last failure.

Time truncated systems: Choose if you have time-truncated data only; that is, the largest time for each system is not a failure time.

Retirement time defined by retirement columns Choose to define the retirement time. See Using time and retirement columns for more information.

Retirement columns: Enter the retirement columns in the box. The first retirement column is paired with the first data column, the second retirement column is paired with the second data column, and so on. All retirement columns must have exactly two distinct values unless you specify a retirement value.

Retirement value: If you like, enter a value indicating which value in your retirement column represents a retired system. If you do not enter a value, the lowest value in the retirement column is the retirement value. Text values must be contained in double quotes.