Advances in Degradation Modeling Applications to Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Finance /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nikulin, M.S. (Editor), Limnios, Nikolaos. (Editor), Balakrishnan, N. (Editor), Kahle, Waltraud. (Editor), Huber-Carol, Catherine. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhũser Boston, 2010.
• Series: Statistics for Industry and Technology
• Subjects: Statistics.; Mathematical statistics.; Economics > Statistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4924-1

This volume<U+0014>dedicated to William Q. Meeker on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday<U+0014>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, qu...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• William Q. Meeker<U+0014>Career and Accomplishments
• List of Contributors
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Part I. Review, Tutorials, and Perspective
• Trends in the Statistical Assessment of Reliability
• Degradation Processes: An Overview
• Defect Initiation, Growth, and Failure<U+0014>A General Statistical Model and Data Analyses
• Properties of Lifetime Estimators Based on Warranty Data Consisting only of Failures
• Part II. Shock Models
• Shock Models
• Parametric Shock Models
• Poisson Approximation of Processes with Locally Independent Increments and Semi-Markov Switching<U+0014>Toward Application in Reliability
• On Some Shock Models of Degradation
• Part III. Degradation Models
• The Wiener Process as a Degradation Model: Modeling and Parameter Estimation
• On the General Degradation Path Model: Review and Simulation
• A Closer Look at Degradation Models: Classical and Bayesian Approaches
• Optimal Prophylaxis Policy Under Non-Monotone Degradation
• Deterioration Processes With Increasing Thresholds
• Failure Time Models Based on Degradation Processes
• Degradation and Fuzzy Information
• A New Perspective on Damage Accumulation, Marker Processes, and Weibull<U+0019>s Distribution
• Part IV. Reliability Estimation and ALT
• Reliability Estimation of Mechanical Components Using Accelerated Life Testing Models
• Reliability Estimation from Fallure-Degradation Data with Covariates
• Asymptotic Properties of Redundant Systems Reliability Estimators
• An Approach to System Reliability Demonstration Based to Accelerated Test Results on Components
• Part V. Survival Function Estimation
• Robust Versus Non Parametric Approaches and Survival Data Analysis
• Modeling Recurrent Events for Repairable Systems Under Worse than Old Assumption
• Survival Models for Step-Stress Experiments with Lagged Effects
• Estimation of Density on Censored Data
• Part VI. Competing Risk and Chaotic Systems
• Toward a Test for Departure of a Trajectory From a Neighborhood of a Chaotic System
• Probability Plotting with Independent Competing Risks
• Index.