
The Theory and Applications of Reliability With Emphasis on Bayesian and Nonparametric Methods
- 1st Edition - December 2, 2012
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Chris Tsokos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 4 2 6 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 4 5 8 5 - 5
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The Theory and Applications of Reliability: With Emphasis on Bayesian and Nonparametric Methods, Volume I covers the proceedings of the conference on ""The Theory and Applications of Reliability with Emphasis on Bayesian and Nonparametric Methods."" The conference is organized so as to have technical presentations, a clinical session, and round table discussions. This volume is a 29-chapter text that specifically deals with the theoretical aspects of reliability estimation. Considerable chapters on the technical sessions are devoted to initial findings on the theory and applications of reliability estimation, with special emphasis on Bayesian and nonparametric methods. A Bayesian analysis implies the use of suitable prior information in association with Bayes theorem while the nonparametric approach analyzes the reliability components and systems under the assumption of a time-to-failure distribution with a wide defining property rather than a specific parametric class of probability distributions. The clinical session chapters discuss the actual problems encountered in reliability estimation. The remaining chapters deal with the status of the subject areas and the empirical Bayes developments. These chapters also present various probabilistic and statistic methods for reliability estimation. Theoreticians and reliability engineers will find this book invaluable.
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents of Volume II
The Air Force Research Program-A New Look
The Bayesian and Nonparametric Approach to Reliability Studies: A Survey of Recent Work
Bayesian Life Testing Using the Total Q on Test
A Bayesian Approach for Testing Increasing Failure Rate
Nonparametric Estimation of Distribution Functions
A Class of Distributions Useful In Life Testing and Reliability with Applications to Nonparametric Testing
A Generalized Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney Statistic with Some Applications in Reliability
The Asymptotic Theory of Extreme Order Statistics
Estimating and Forecasting Failure-Rate Processes by Means of the Kalman Filter
Shock and Wear Models and Markov Additive Processes
The Maintenance of Systems Governed by Semi-Markov Shock Models
Bounds for the Distributions and Hazard Gradients of Multivariate Random Minimums
The Role of the Poisson Distribution in Approximating System Reliability of k-Out-of-n Structures
Converting Dependent Models into Independent Ones, with Applications in Reliability
Structural Inference on Reliability in a Lognormal Model
Uniformly Most Powerful Unbiased Tests for the Parameters of the Gamma Distribution
Unbalanced Random-Effect Model with Unequal Group Variances: Estimation of Design Parameters Allowing for Screened Batches
Some Stochastic Characterizations of Multivariate Survival
A Family of Bivariate Life Distributions
Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Failure Data
Optimal Replacement Policies for Devices Subject to a Gamma Wear Process
Some Limit Theorems in Standby Redundancy with Renewals
Some Aspects of the Use of the Mann-Fertig Statistic to Obtain Confidence Interval Estimates for the Threshold Parameter of the Weibull
Opportunistic Replacement Policies
On Selecting Which of k Populations Exceed a Standard
On Generalized Multivariate Gamma Type Distributions and their Applications in Reliability
On Some Optimal Sampling Procedures for Selection Problems
Classification Rules for Exponential Populations: Two Parameter Case
A Bivariate Exponential Model with Applications to Reliability and Computer Generation of Random Variables
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 2, 2012
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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