Launch the Life Distribution platform by selecting Analyze > Reliability and Survival > Life Distribution.
Figure 2.4 The Life Distribution Launch Window
Figure 2.5 Censored Data Types for Two Response Variables
A column that contains multiple failure causes. If a Failure Cause column is selected, then a section is added to the window:
Distribution specifies the initial distribution to fit for each failure cause. Select one distribution to fit for all causes; select Individual Best to let the platform automatically choose the best fit for each cause; or select Manual Pick to manually choose the distribution to fit for each failure cause after JMP creates the Life Distribution report. You can also change the distribution fits in the Life Distribution report itself.
Comparison Criterion is an option that appears only when you choose the Individual Best distribution fit. Select the method by which JMP chooses the best distribution: Corrected Akaike Information Criterion (AICc), Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), or twice the negative log-likelihood (-2Loglikelihood). For more details, see Likelihood, AICc, and BIC in the Fitting Linear Models book. You can change the method later in the Model Comparisons report. See Model Comparisons for details.
Censor Indicator in Failure Cause Column identifies the value used in the Failure Cause column to indicate that an observation did not fail. To specify such an indicator, select this option and then enter the indicator in the box that appears. You can also select a value from the list to the right of the box.
See Meeker and Escobar (1998, ch. 15) for a discussion of multiple failure causes. Omit Competing Causes illustrates how to analyze multiple causes.

Help created on 7/12/2018