Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability

Published:
April 27, 1995 by CRC Press - 672 Pages
Author(s):
N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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ISBN 9780849389726
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Features

  • Chapters written by well-known researchers who have contributed significantly to these areas of study
  • Discusses recent developments in methodology as well as applications, with new results presented and illustrated with many practical data sets
  • Each chapter well referenced, with chapters grouped together by common topic for easy reader access to information
  • Lists problems and issues that are yet unresolved, providing possible topics for future research

    • Summary

    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.

    Table of Contents

    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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