Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability

ISBN-13: 9780849389726 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 672 str.

N. Balakrishnan

Opis

This unique volume presents chapters written on the areas of life-testing and reliability by many well-known researchers who have contributed significantly to these two areas over the years. Chapters cover a wide range of topics such as inference under censoring and truncation, reliability growth models, designs to improve quality, prediction techniques, Bayesian analysis of reliability, multivariate methods, accelerated testing, and more. The book is written in an easy-to-follow style, first presenting the necessary theoretical details and then illustrating the methods with a numerical examples wherever possible. Many tables and graphs that are essential for the use of some of the new methodologies are presented throughout the volume. Numerous examples provide the reader with a clear understanding of the methods presented as well as with insight into the applications of these results.

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Reliability
Analysis of Reliability Data Using Subsurvival Functions and Censoring Models, R. Cooke and T. Bedford
A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Reliability Data Bases, R.E. Barlow
Analysis of Repair Data With Two Measures of Usage, W. Nelson
Assessing the Effect of In-Service Inspections on the Reliability of Degrading Components, C.G. Garrigoux and W.Q. Meeker
Models and Analyses for the Reliability of A Single Repairable System, M. Engelhardt
Sequential Procedures in Software Reliability Testing, S. Zacks
Prediction of Fatigue Life that Would Result if Defects Are Eliminated, W. Nelson
Role of Field Performance Data and Its Analysis, K. Suzuki
Analysis of Experiments for Reliability Improvement and Robust Reliability, M. Hamada
Unity Values for Bayes Reliability Demonstration Testing, R.L. Parker, H.F. Martz, R.R. Prairie, and W.J. Zimmer
Standard Errors for the Mean Number of Repairs on Systems from a Finite Population, J.A. Robinson
Accelerated Reliability Growth Methodologies and Models, A.A. Feinberg and G.J. Gibson
The Reliability Physics of Thermodynamic Aging, A.A. Feinberg and A. Widom
Reliability in Design, N.O. Wood
Bounds and Limit Theorems for Coherent Reliability, M.V. Koutras, S.G. Papastavridis, and K.I. Petakos
Reliability Growth
A Reliability Growth Model Under Inherent and Assignable-Cause Failures, A. Sen and G.K. Bhattacharyya
Reliability Growth: Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process, C.P. Tsokos
Reliability Growth-Early Models and Some Recent Developments, P. Prescott
Recent Advances in Experimental Design Analysis for Reliability Growth Programs, C. Benski, and E. Cabau
Parametric Models and Inference
Likelihood Ratio Confidence Intervals in Life-Data Analysis, N. Doganoksoy
Statistical Analysis of Life or Strength Data from Specimens of Various Sizes Using the Power-(Log)Normal Model, W. Nelson and N. Doganoksoy
Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Log-gamma Distribution Under Type-II Censored Samples and Associated Inference, N. Balakrishnan and P.S. Chan
Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Three-Parameter Log-gamma Distribution Under Type-II Censoring, N. Balakrishnan and P.S. Chan
Likelihood and Modified Likelihood Estimation for Distributions with Unknown Endpoints, R.L. Smith
Some Tests for Discriminating Between Lognormal and Weibull Distributions-An Application to Emission Data, G.C. McDonald, L.C. Vance, and D.I. Gibbons
Choosing a Model from Among Four Families of Distributions, K.B. Kulasckera and P.R. Nelson
Predictive Distributions of Order Statistics, R.A. Johnson, J. Evans, and D. Green
Residuals from Type II Censored Samples, E.A. Peña
The Use of L-Moments in the Analysis of Censored Data, J.R.M. Hosking
The Infeasibility of Probability Weighted Moments Estimation of Some Generalized Distributions, G. Chen and N. Balakrishnan
A Class of Tests for Exponentiality Against Decreasing Bivariate Mean Residual Life Alternatives, D. Bandyopadhyay and A.P. Basu
Survival Analysis and Multivariate Models
Conditional Survival Models, B.C. Arnold
Multivariate Survival Analysis Using Random Effect Models, J.E. Anderson
On the Dependence of Structure of Multivariate Processes and Corresponding Hitting Times (A Survey), N. Ebrahimi

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