An Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Model Failure Times by Continuous-Time Markov Chains

<table>The TTT plots for the first data set and the simulated TTFs. The circles represent the real data and the solid points represent the simulated results with the estimated parameters.</table>

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Figure 3: An Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Model Failure Times by Continuous-Time Markov Chains 