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Quantile-based reliability analysis / N. Unnikrishnan Nair, P.G. Sankaran and N. Balakrishnan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Statistics for industry and technologyPublication details: New York : Birkhauser, ©2013.Description: xx, 397 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780817683603 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.287 23 N158
Contents:
1. Quantile Functions -- 2. Quantile-Based Reliability Concepts -- 3. Quantile Function Models -- 4. Ageing Concepts -- 5. Total Time on Test Transforms -- 6. L-Moments of Residual Life and Partial Moments -- 7. Nonmonotone Hazard Quantile Functions -- 8. Stochastic Orders in Reliability -- 9. Estimation and Modelling-- References-- Index.
Summary: This book provides a fresh approach to reliability theory, an area that has gained increasing relevance in fields from statistics and engineering to demography and insurance. Its innovative use of quantile functions gives an analysis of lifetime data that is generally simpler, more robust, and more accurate than the traditional methods, and opens the door for further research in a wide variety of fields involving statistical analysis. In addition, the book can be used to good effect in the classroom as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Reliability and Statistics --
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-383) and index.

1. Quantile Functions --
2. Quantile-Based Reliability Concepts --
3. Quantile Function Models --
4. Ageing Concepts --
5. Total Time on Test Transforms --
6. L-Moments of Residual Life and Partial Moments --
7. Nonmonotone Hazard Quantile Functions --
8. Stochastic Orders in Reliability --
9. Estimation and Modelling--

References--
Index.

This book provides a fresh approach to reliability theory, an area that has gained increasing relevance in fields from statistics and engineering to demography and insurance. Its innovative use of quantile functions gives an analysis of lifetime data that is generally simpler, more robust, and more accurate than the traditional methods, and opens the door for further research in a wide variety of fields involving statistical analysis. In addition, the book can be used to good effect in the classroom as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Reliability and Statistics --

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