Research Catalog

Title

Mathematical reliability : an expository perspective / edited by Refik Soyer, Thomas A. Mazzuchi, Nozer D. Singpurwalla.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Soyer, Refik.
• Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
• Singpurwalla, Nozer D.
• Barlow, Richard E.

Description

xxi, 333 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

Soyer (management science, The George Washington University) collects work on advanced theoretical approaches and novel applications of reliability, encompassing areas such as finance, forensics, information, and orthopedics, as well as more traditional reliability topics. Contributions are in sections on networks and systems, recurrent events, information and design, failure rate function and burn-in, software reliability and random environments, reliability in composites and orthopedics, and reliability in finance and forensics. The book is suitable for graduate students, professionals, and researchers in statistics, operations research, management science, biostatistics, and engineering. There is no subject index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Series Statement

International series in operations research & management science ; 67

Uniform Title

International series in operations research & management science ; 67.

Subject

• Reliability (Engineering)
• Mathematical optimization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Signature of a Coherent System / Philip J. Boland and Francisco J. Samaniego -- 2. System Reliability Optimization: An Overview / Way Kuo and Rajendra Prasad -- 3. Methods for Assessing Network Reliability / Andrew W. Swift -- 4. Modelling Heterogeneity: Hierarchical Bayesian Approach / Elja Arjas and Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee -- 5. Spatial Neutral to the Right Processes / Kjell A. Doksum and Lancelot F. James -- 6. Models for Recurrent Events in Reliability and Survival Analysis / Edsel A. Pena and Myles Hollander -- 7. Information Functions for Reliability / Nader Ebrahimi and Ehsan S. Soofi -- 8. Experiments for Reliability Assessment and Improvement / Vijay N. Nair, Luis A. Escobar and Michael S. Hamada -- 9. Analysis of Computer and Physical Experimental Life Time Data / Alyson G. Wilson, C. Shane Reese, Michael S. Hamada and Harry F. Martz -- 10. Shape of Failure Rate Mixtures / Henry W. Block and Thomas H. Savits -- 11. Burn-in -- Sequential Stop and Go Strategies / Uwe Jensen and Fabio Spizzichino -- 12. Managing Software Development Process / I. Robert Chiang and Lynn Kuo -- 13. Reliability Modeling and Analysis in Random Environments / Suleyman Ozekici and Refik Soyer -- 14. Failure of Brittle Fibers and Composites / J. D. Lynch and W. J. Padgett -- 15. Modeling the Reliability of Hip Replacements / Simon P. Wilson -- 16. Price of Failure / Nicholas James Lynn -- 17. Warranty: A Surrogate of Reliability / Nozer D. Singpurwalla.

ISBN

• 1402076975
• 9781402076978

LCCN

2003063461

OCLC

• ocm53231314
• 53231314
• SCSB-9322790

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library