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9789810248659

System and Bayesian Reliability

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    9789810248659

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    9810248652

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-03-01
  • Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Summary

Essays in Honor of Professor Richard E. Barlow on his 70th birthday. A collection of articles on reliability systems and Bayesian reliability analysis. Professor Barlow is well known for his pioneering research on reliability theory and Bayesian reliability analysis.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
System Reliability Analysisp. 1
On Regular Reliability Modelsp. 3
Bounding System Reliabilityp. 15
Large Excesses for Finite-State Markov Chainsp. 35
Hardware-Software Reliability Perspectivesp. 41
Inspection-Age-Replacement Policy and System Availabilityp. 73
Behavior of Failure Rates of Mixtures and Systemsp. 95
A General Maximal Precedence Testp. 105
Total Time on Test Processes and their Application to Maintenance Problemp. 123
Ageing Propertiesp. 145
Nonmonotonic Failure Rates and Mean Residual Life Functionsp. 147
The Failure Rate and the Mean Residual Lifetime of Mixturesp. 165
On Some Discrete Notions of Agingp. 185
On Generalized Orderings and Ageing Properties with their Implicationsp. 199
Dependence and Multivariate Aging: The Role of Level Sets of the Survival Functionp. 229
Dependence and Ageing Properties of Bivariate Lomax Distributionp. 243
Physical Foundations for Lifetime Distributionsp. 257
Bayesian Analysisp. 267
On the Practical Implementation of the Bayesian Paradigm in Reliability and Risk Analysisp. 269
A Weibull Wearout Test: Full Bayesian Approachp. 287
Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of a Monotone Hazard Ratep. 301
Bayesian Sensitivity Analysisp. 315
Bayesian Sampling Allocations to Select the Best Normal Population with Different Sampling Costs and Known Variancesp. 333
Bayes Estimates of Flood Quantiles Using the Generalised Gamma Distributionp. 351
Bayesian Operational Approach for Regression Models in Finite Populationsp. 375
Bayesian Nonparametric Testing of Constant Versus Nondecreasing Hazard Ratesp. 391
Indexp. 407
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