System and Bayesian Reliability

by Hayakawa, Yu; Irony, Telba; Xie, Min; Irony, Telba; Xie, Min; Barlow, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9789810248659
• ISBN10: 9810248652
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

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 Analysis	p. 1
On Regular Reliability Models	p. 3
Bounding System Reliability	p. 15
Large Excesses for Finite-State Markov Chains	p. 35
Hardware-Software Reliability Perspectives	p. 41
Inspection-Age-Replacement Policy and System Availability	p. 73
Behavior of Failure Rates of Mixtures and Systems	p. 95
A General Maximal Precedence Test	p. 105
Total Time on Test Processes and their Application to Maintenance Problem	p. 123
Ageing Properties	p. 145
Nonmonotonic Failure Rates and Mean Residual Life Functions	p. 147
The Failure Rate and the Mean Residual Lifetime of Mixtures	p. 165
On Some Discrete Notions of Aging	p. 185
On Generalized Orderings and Ageing Properties with their Implications	p. 199
Dependence and Multivariate Aging: The Role of Level Sets of the Survival Function	p. 229
Dependence and Ageing Properties of Bivariate Lomax Distribution	p. 243
Physical Foundations for Lifetime Distributions	p. 257
Bayesian Analysis	p. 267
On the Practical Implementation of the Bayesian Paradigm in Reliability and Risk Analysis	p. 269
A Weibull Wearout Test: Full Bayesian Approach	p. 287
Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of a Monotone Hazard Rate	p. 301
Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis	p. 315
Bayesian Sampling Allocations to Select the Best Normal Population with Different Sampling Costs and Known Variances	p. 333
Bayes Estimates of Flood Quantiles Using the Generalised Gamma Distribution	p. 351
Bayesian Operational Approach for Regression Models in Finite Populations	p. 375
Bayesian Nonparametric Testing of Constant Versus Nondecreasing Hazard Rates	p. 391
Index	p. 407
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