Reliability and Survival Analysis

• Main Authors: Karim, Md. Rezaul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Islam, M. Ataharul (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Statistics .; Social medicine.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Medical Sociology.

This book presents and standardizes statistical models and methods that can be directly applied to both reliability and survival analysis. These two types of analysis are widely used in many fields, including engineering, management, medicine, actuarial science, the environmental sciences, and the l...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Reliability and Survival Analysis: Concepts and Definitions
• Chapter 2: Mean Lifetime and Residual Lifetime
• Chapter 3: Probability Distributions of Lifetimes (Uncensored)
• Chapter 4: Censoring Mechanisms
• Chapter 5: Probability Distributions of Lifetimes under Censoring Schemes
• Chapter 6: Nonparametric Methods
• Chapter 7: Parametric Methods
• Chapter 8: Regression Models
• Chapter 9: Generalized Linear Models for Failure Times
• Chapter 10: Components and Systems
• Chapter 11: Reliability Functions and Ageing Properties
• Chapter 12: Models for Production System
• Chapter 13: Stochastic Models
• Chapter 14: Further Topics
• References
• Appendix - A: Statistical Tables
• Appendix - B: Data Sets
• Appendix - C: R-Packages and Programming Codes
• Index.