Amstat News asked three review editors to rate their top five favorite books in the September 2003 issue. Statistical Methods for Reliability Data was among those chosen. Bringing statistical methods for reliability testing in line with the computer age This volume presents state-of-the-art, computer-based statistical methods for reliability data analysis and test planning for industrial products. Statistical Methods for Reliability Data updates and improves established techniques as it demonstrates how to apply the new graphical, numerical, or simulation-based methods to a broad range of models encountered in reliability data analysis. It includes methods for planning reliability studies and analyzing degradation data, simulation methods used to complement large-sample asymptotic theory, general likelihood-based methods of handling arbitrarily censored data and truncated data, and more. In this book, engineers and statisticians in industry and academia will find: <ul>
<li>A wealth of information and procedures developed to give products a competitive edge</li> <li>Simple examples of data analysis computed with the S-PLUS system-for which a suite of functions and commands is available over the Internet</li> <li>End-of-chapter, real-data exercise sets</li> <li>Hundreds of computer graphics illustrating data, results of analyses, and technical concepts</li> </ul>
An essential resource for practitioners involved in product reliability and design decisions, Statistical Methods for Reliability Data is also an excellent textbook for on-the-job training courses, and for university courses on applied reliability data analysis at the graduate level. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available upon requestfrom the Wiley editorial department.

Statistical Methods for Reliability Data

Science & Math

Escobar, Luis A.

Meeker, William Q.

Biological Sciences

Wiley-Interscience

Describes statistical intervals to quantify sampling uncertainty,focusing on key application needs and recently developed methodology in an easy-to-apply format Statistical intervals provide invaluable tools for quantifying sampling uncertainty. The widely hailed first edition, published in 1991, described the use and construction of the most important statistical intervals. Particular emphasis was given to intervals―such as prediction intervals, tolerance intervals and confidence intervals on distribution quantiles―frequently needed in practice, but often neglected in introductory courses. Vastly improved computer capabilities over the past 25 years have resulted in an explosion of the tools readily available to analysts. This second edition―more than double the size of the first―adds these new methods in an easy-to-apply format. In addition to extensive updating of the original chapters, the second edition includes new chapters on: <ul>
<li>Likelihood-based statistical intervals</li> <li>Nonparametric bootstrap intervals</li> <li>Parametric bootstrap and other simulation-based intervals</li> <li>An introduction to Bayesian intervals</li> <li>Bayesian intervals for the popular binomial, Poisson and normal distributions</li> <li>Statistical intervals for Bayesian hierarchical models</li> <li>Advanced case studies, further illustrating the use of the newly described methods</li> </ul>
New technical appendices provide justification of the methods and pathways to extensions and further applications. A webpage directs readers to current readily accessible computer software and other useful information. Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers, Second Edition is an up-to-date working guide and reference for all who analyze data, allowing them to quantify the uncertainty in their results using statistical intervals.

Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Hahn, Gerald J.

Mathematics

wiley

An authoritative guide to the most recent advances in statistical methods for quantifying reliability Statistical Methods for Reliability Data, Second Edition (SMRD2) is an essential guide to the most widely used and recently developed statistical methods for reliability data analysis and reliability test planning. Written by three experts in the area, SMRD2 updates and extends the long- established statistical techniques and shows how to apply powerful graphical, numerical, and simulation-based methods to a range of applications in reliability. SMRD2 is a comprehensive resource that describes maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods for solving practical problems that arise in product reliability and similar areas of application. SMRD2 illustrates methods with numerous applications and all the data sets are available on the book's website. Also, SMRD2 contains an extensive collection of exercises that will enhance its use as a course textbook. The SMRD2's website contains valuable resources, including R packages, Stan model codes, presentation slides, technical notes, information about commercial software for reliability data analysis, and csv files for the 93 data sets used in the book's examples and exercises. The importance of statistical methods in the area of engineering reliability continues to grow and SMRD2 offers an updated guide for, exploring, modeling, and drawing conclusions from reliability data. SMRD2 features: <ul> <li>Contains a wealth of information on modern methods and techniques for reliability data analysis</li> <li>Offers discussions on the practical problem-solving power of various Bayesian inference methods</li> <li>Provides examples of Bayesian data analysis performed using the R interface to the Stan system based on Stan models that are available on the book's website</li> <li>Includes helpful technical-problem and data-analysis exercise sets at the end of every chapter</li> <li>Presents illustrative computer graphics that highlight data, results of analyses, and technical concepts</li> </ul> Written for engineers and statisticians in industry and academia, Statistical Methods for Reliability Data, Second Edition offers an authoritative guide to this important topic.

Statistical Methods for Reliability Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Pascual, Francis G.

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