Title | Advances in Stochastic Models for Reliability, Quality and Safety [electronic resource] / edited by Waltraud Kahle, Elart von Collani, Jรผrgen Franz, Uwe Jensen |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Birkhรคuser Boston, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2234-7 |
Descript | XXVIII, 382 p. online resource |
I: Lifetime Analysis -- 1. The Generalized Linnik Distributions -- 2. Acceptance Regions and Their Application in Lifetime Estimation -- 3. On Statistics in Failure-Repair Models Under Censoring -- 4. Parameter Estimation in Renewal Processes with Imperfect Repair -- 5. Investigation of Convergence Rates in Risk Theory in the Presence of Heavy Tails -- 6. Least Squares and Minimum Distance Estimation in the Three-Parameter Weibull and Frรฉchet Models with Applications to River Drain Data -- II: Reliability Analysis -- 7. Maximum Likelihood Estimation With Different Sequential k-out-of-n Systems -- 8. Stochastic Models for the Return of Used Devices -- 9. Some Remarks on Dependent Censoring in Complex Systems -- 10. Parameter Estimation in Damage Processes: Dependent Observations of Damage Increments and First Passage Time -- 11. Boundary Crossing Probabilities of Poisson Counting Processes with General Boundaries -- 12. Optimal Sequential Estimation for Markov-Additive Processes -- 13. Some Models Describing Damage Processes and Resulting First Passage Times -- 14. Absorption Probabilities of a Brownian Motion in a Triangular Domain -- III: Network Analysis -- 15. A Simple Algorithm for Calculating Approximately the Reliability of Almost Arbitrary Large Networks -- 16. Reliability Analysis of Flow Networks -- 17. Generalized Gram-Charlier Series A and C Approximation for Nonlinear Mechanical Systems -- 18. A Unified Approach to the Reliability of Recurrent Structures -- IV: Process Control -- 19. Testing for the Existence of a Change-Point in a Specified Time Interval -- 20. On the Integration of Statistical Process Control and Engineering Process Control in Discrete Manufacturing Processes -- 21. Controlling a Process with Three Different States -- 22. CUSUM Schemes and Erlang Distributions -- 23. On the Average Delay of Control Schemes -- 24. Tolerance Bounds and Cpk Confidence Bounds Under Batch Effects