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flexhaz: Specify the Hazard Function Directly
An R package for specifying hazard functions directly instead of picking from a catalog of named distributions. You write the hazard. It handles the rest.
August 20, 2021 · 2 min read
Masked Failure Data: Looking Back, Looking Forward
A retrospective on three years of building R packages and writing papers for masked series system reliability, and what comes next.
February 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Observation Functors: Composable Censoring for Series System Simulation
Observation functors in maskedcauses: composable functions that separate the data-generating process from the observation mechanism, enabling mixed-censoring simulation and verified Monte Carlo studies.
February 13, 2026 · 9 min read
maskedcauses: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Masked Series System Failures
The maskedcauses R package for MLE in series systems with masked component failures, built on composable likelihood contributions and validated through simulation.
February 5, 2026 · 5 min read