Advances in Degradation Modeling
Applications to Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Finance
Editors: Nikulin, M.S., Limnios, N., Balakrishnan, N., Kahle, W., Huber-Carol, C. (Eds.)
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This volume—dedicated to William Q. Meeker on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday—is a collection of invited chapters covering recent advances in accelerated life testing and degradation models. The book covers a wide range of applications to areas such as reliability, quality control, the health sciences, economics, and finance.
Specific topics covered include:
* Accelerated testing and inference
* Step-stress testing and inference
* Nonparametric inference
* Model validity in accelerated testing
* The point process approach
* Bootstrap methods in degradation analysis
* Exact inferential methods in reliability
* Dynamic perturbed systems
* Degradation models in statistics
Advances in Degradation Modeling is an excellent reference for researchers and practitioners in applied probability and statistics, industrial statistics, the health sciences, quality control, economics, and finance.
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“The topics covered are of current interest and include accelerated life testing and degradation models. … The volume covers a host of applications to the field, including reliability, quality control, economics and finance. The volume is well organized, structured and presented, and the chapters appear in a logical order. It contains a lot of useful information and applications. … the volume would be a useful resource for researchers and graduate students involved in this arena.” (Technometrics, Vol. 52 (4), November, 2010)
- Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Trends in the Statistical Assessment of Reliability
Pages 3-16
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Degradation Processes: An Overview
Pages 17-25
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Defect Initiation, Growth, and Failure – A General Statistical Model and Data Analyses
Pages 27-37
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Properties of Lifetime Estimators Based on Warranty Data Consisting only of Failures
Pages 39-55
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Shock Models
Pages 59-76
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Advances in Degradation Modeling
- Book Subtitle
- Applications to Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Finance
- Editors
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- M.S. Nikulin
- Nikolaos Limnios
- N Balakrishnan
- Waltraud Kahle
- Catherine Huber-Carol
- Series Title
- Statistics for Industry and Technology
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Basel
- Copyright Holder
- Birkhäuser Boston
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-8176-4924-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-0-8176-4924-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-8176-4923-4
- Series ISSN
- 2364-6241
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXVIII, 416
- Number of Illustrations
- 98 b/w illustrations
- Topics