Quantile-Based Reliability Analysis
Published on 24. August 2013
XX, 397 pages
978-0-8176-8361-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
From the book reviews:
"This book introduces quantile-based reliability analysis. It gives a novel approach to reliability theory using quantile functions in contrast to the traditional approach based on distribution functions. . This book has a broad applicability across fields such as statistics, survival analysis, economics, engineering, demography, insurance, and medical science. It can be used as an excellent reference book for faculty and professionals." (Yuehua Wu, zbMATH 1306.62019, 2015)
"The reviewer finds it to be a good and quite exhaustive collection of results that are centered around quantile-based notions involving life distributions. Any researcher in the areas of probabilistic or statistical reliability theory may find this monograph to be a useful reference book." (Moshe Shaked, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2014)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer US
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XX, 397 p. 20 illus., 3 illus. in color.
File size
3,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8176-8361-0 (9780817683610)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-8176-8361-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
N. Unnikrishnan Nair | P.G. Sankaran | N. Balakrishnan
Quantile-Based Reliability Analysis
Book
08/2013
Birkhauser Boston Inc
€53.49
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Preface.- Chapter I Quantile Functions.- Chapter II Quantile-Based Reliability Concepts.- Chapter III Quantile Function Models.- Chapter IV Ageing Concepts.- Chapter V Total Time on Test Transforms (TTT).- Chapter VI L-Moments of Residual Life and Partial Moments.- Chapter VII Nonmonotone Hazard Quantile Functions.- Chapter VIII Stochastic Orders in Reliability.- IX Estimation and Modeling.- References.- Index.
