Parametric and semiparametric models are tools with a wide range of applications to reliability, survival analysis, and quality of life. This self-contained volume examines these tools in survey articles written by experts currently working on the development and evaluation [...]
It is now clear that semi-Markov processes play an increasingly crucial role in business and industry; this is partially due to the fact that, with the powerful mathematical software now existing, the numerical treatment of basic integral equations is easier and so leads to [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 25.07.2012 / Delivery time: 1-2 weeks (title will be printed to order)
Nonparametric statistics have probably become the more appealing methodology for researchers performing data analysis. It is nevertheless true that, whereas these methods have already proved highly effective in other applied areas of knowledge such as biostatistics, social [...]
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Released: 30.01.2013 / Delivery time: 1-2 weeks (title will be printed to order)
Offers a pedagogical examination of the way in which stochastic models are encountered in applied sciences and techniques such as physics, engineering, biology and genetics, economics and social sciences.
This volume 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, quality control, the health sciences, economics and finance. Additional [...]
Nonparametric statistics has probably become the leading methodology for researchers performing data analysis. It is nevertheless true that, whereas these methods have already proved highly effective in other applied areas of knowledge such as biostatistics or social [...]
This volume 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, quality control, the health sciences, economics and finance. Additional [...]
Fault tree analysis is an important technique in determining the safety and dependability of complex systems. Fault trees are used as a major tool in the study of system safety as well as in reliability and availability studies. The basic methods – construction, [...]
An outgrowth of the International Conference on Statistical Models for Biomedical and Technical Systems, this book is comprised of contributions from renowned experts, demonstrating the significance of current research on the theory, methods, and applications of the field. [...]
This book is concerned with the estimation of discrete-time semi-Markov and hidden semi-Markov processes. Semi-Markov processes are much more general and better adapted to applications than the Markov ones because sojourn times in any state can be arbitrarily distributed, [...]
This title considers the special of random processes known as semi-Markov processes. Extensive coverage is devoted to non-Markovian semi-Markov processes with continuous trajectories and, in particular, to semi-Markov diffusion processes. Readers looking to enrich their [...]
Switching processes, invented by the author in 1977, is the main tool used in the investigation of traffic problems from automotive to telecommunications. The title provides an approach to low traffic problems based on the analysis of flows of rare events and queuing models.
Reliability and survival analysis are important applications of stochastic mathematics (probability, statistics, and stochastic processes) that are usually covered separately in spite of the similarity of the involved mathematical theory. This title aims to redress this [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 2005 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)