Resumé                                                                                   April, 2003

NOZER D. SINGPURWALLA

 

 

ADDRESS:

Dept. of Statistics

2306 North Stafford Street

 

The George Washington University

Arlington, Virginia  22207

 

Washington, D.C.  20052

Phone   (703) 243-4207

 

Phone   (202) 994-7515

E-mail:  nozer@gwu.edu

 

Fax       (202) 994-7508

Website: www.gwu.edu/~stat/irra

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., New York University, 1968

MARRIED:

One daughter, one son

 

M.S., Rutgers University, 1964

CITIZENSHIP:

Naturalized in US 1971

 

 

 

 

HONORS:

 

 

 

 

Visiting Fellow, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, England (Spring 2002)

Invited Professor, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Vannes, France (2002)

Visiting Professor, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM (Fall 2001)

Scholar in Residence, The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio (Italy) (1994)

Senior Research Fellow, ASA/NSF/NIST, at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (1993)

Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Scholarship, The George Washington University (1992)

Wilks Award* for Contributions to Statistical Methodologies in Army Research (1984)

Fellow*, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1987)

Fellow*, American Statistical Association (1974)

Fellow*, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1982)

Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (1977)

Member, Committee on EMP, Panel on Statistical Software, and Aircraft Certification, National Academy of Sciences

Member, Division Review Committee, The Los Alamos National Labs.  (2001), (2002); Committee Chair (2003)

Platinum Jubilee Speaker, Indian Science Congress (1993)

Keynote Speaker, Iranian Statistical Association (1992), (1998), (2002)

Keynote Speaker, South African Statistical Association (1991)

Keynote Speaker, U.S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics (2000)

C.C. Garvin Visiting Endowed Professor of Computer Science and of Statistics, VPI and SU (1991)

Lukacs Professor, Bowling Green State University (2000)

Visiting Professor of Statistics and Visiting Scientist (The SEI), Carnegie-Mellon University (AY 1989-1990)

Visiting Professor of Statistics, Stanford University (academic year 1978-1979)

Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, The FSU, Tallahassee (January-June 1976)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Operations Research, Stanford University (Fall 1975)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Operations Research, UC Berkeley (1972, 1977, 1978, 1979)

Visiting Professor, The Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India (Summer 1975)

University Honors Scholar, New York University (1969)

College Open Merit Scholar (1956-1959)

Alpha Pi Mu; Omega Rho; Sigma Xi; Mu Sigma Rho; Tau Beta Pi (Eminent Engineer)

Listed:  American Men of Science, Community Leaders of America, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest,

Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in Technology, Who’s Who in the World.

*Citations on page 5.

 

 

POSITIONS HELD:

1969 –

present

Distinguished Research Professor, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

 

 

1977 –

present

Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbian College of  Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

 

 

1981 –

present

Director, Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis, The George Washington University

 

 

 

Principal Investigator on:

 

 

 

Research contracts with the Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy (1973-1974, 1974-1975, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981, 1981-1984,1985-1988, 1989-1993, 1994-1996, 1999-2001.)

 

 

 

Research contract with the Army Research Office, Department of the Army (1980-1983, 1983-1986, 1987-1992, 1993-1996, 1996-1997 DURIP, 1997-2000, 1999 – 2004)

 

 

 

Research contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1977-1978, 1978-1979)

 

 

 

Research contract with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (1989-1990, 1991-1994, 1994, 1996)

 

 

 

Research contract with Aerospace Research Laboratories, Department of the Air Force (1974-1976)

 

 

 

Research contract with the National Science Foundation (1989-1990, 1992-1995)

Research contracts with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1974-1976, 1978-1980, 1989-1992)

 

 

 

Research contract with Los Alamos National Laboratories (1981-1985)

 

 

 

Research contract with the Naval Air Systems Command, Department of the Navy (1981-1982, 1982-1983, 1983-1984, 1984-1985)

 

 

 

Research contract with the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility, National Bureau of Standards [now NIST] (1985-1986)

 

 

Research contract with The Institute for Defense Analyses (2002-2005)

 

 

Research contract with Coherent Communication (1998)

 

 

 

Research contract with General Motors Research Laboratories (1985-1986)

 

 

 

Research grant with Ford Motor Company (1989-1991)

 

 

Jan-Jun

1968

Instructor, University of California at Irvine, Extension

 

 

1969 p/t

Associate Professor,  California State College at Fullerton

 

 

1968 –

1970

Project Manager for an Air Force contract, Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton,

California

 

 

1963 –

1968

Research Statistician, Western Electric Company, Princeton, New Jersey

                                             

 

 

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

 

 

 

 

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)

 

 

 

American Statistical Association (Fellow)

 

 

 

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow)

 

 

 

International Statistical Institute (Elected Member)

 

 

 

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

 

 

 

International Society for Bayesian Analysis

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

Editor, Operations Research, Special Issue on Reliability (1984)

 

 

 

Discussion Forum Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1995- )

 

 

 

Coordinating Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1989-2000); Associate Editor (1983-1985)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, International Statistical Review (1999-     )

 

Associate Editor, Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (1992-1998)

 

 

 

Association Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association (1990-1993), (2002-)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, The American Statistician (1985-1993)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (1986-1995)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Letters in Probability and Statistics (1982- )

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Operations Research (1980-1982)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics (1982-1992)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Technometrics (1978-1980)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Aligarh Journal of Statistics (1981- )

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Institute of Industrial Engineering Transactions (1989-1993)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, TEST (Spanish Journal of Statistics and Operations Research, 1993-1998)

 

 

 

Associate Editor, Iranian Journal of Statistics (2002-Present)

 

 

 

Member, Subcommittee on Statistical Methods, American National Standards Institute Committee Z-1

 

 

 

Member, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Evaluation Panel (1978)

 

 

 

Program Chairman, Eighth Annual Meeting (International) of the Society for Engineering Science; Environmental Engineering

 

 

 

Representative of American Statistical Association to Section P (Industrial Science) of American Association for Advancement of Science (1984-1987)

 

 

 

Lecturer, Visiting Lecturer Program in Statistics, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (1989-1991)

 

CONSULTING SERVICES:

 

U.S. Post Office, Technical Analysis Division, Washington, D.C.

 

Planning Research Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

 

Lockheed Aircraft Company, Palo Alto, CA

 

Mathematica, Inc., Princeton, NJ

 

Teknekron, Inc., Berkeley, CA

 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Meteorology

 

Potomac Electric Power Company, Washington, D.C.

 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mobile Source Enforcement Division

 

NUS Corporation, Rockville, MD

 

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now DHHS),  Bureau of medical Devices

 

National Institute on Drug Abuse

 

Research-Cottrell, Inc., Bound Brook, NJ

 

Bendix Research Laboratories, Southfield, MI

 

U.S. Air Force Logistics Management Center, Gunter AFB, AL

 

Maximus, Inc., McLean, VA

 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safeguards

 

Association of American Railroads, Washington, DC

 

Electronic Industries Association, Washington, DC

 

Novacor Medical Corporation, Oakland, CA (assessing the reliability of a heart-assist device)

 

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI

 

Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, IN

 

RDA Logicon, Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC

 

United States Marine Corps (Reliability of the AAAV)

 

Owens Corning, Science and Technology Center

 

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

 

The Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, DC

 

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Md.


 

Statistical Expert Witness on Legal Cases

 

·        

Department of Justice, Division of Taxation (collaborated with Dr. W. Edwards Deming on four tax cases)

 

 

·        

Leaf, Sternklar and Drogin, New York, NY (a product quality and an age discrimination case)

 

 

·        

Fried, Frank, et al, Washington, D.C. (product warranty claims case)

 

 

·        

Latham and Watkins, Attorneys at Law, Washington, D.C. (two product reliability cases)

 

 

·        

Staas and Halsey, Attorneys at Law, Washington, D.C. (a patent infringement suit involving biotechnology)

 

 

·        

Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, Washington, D.C. (a lawsuit involving the reliability and maintainability of a large telecommunication system)

 

 

·        

Fenwick and West, Palo Alto, Calif. (warranty analysis)

 

 

·        

Charles Mann and Associates (product warranty analysis)

 

CITATIONS OF HONORS:

 

 

Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Scholarship (1992):

 

 

 

For significant research contributions and continuing advances in scholarly field.

 

 

 

Wilks Award (1984):

 

 

 

For singular contributions to reliability theory and life testing methodologies, for professional service to the statistics community and for invaluable assistance in solving several important problems in the Department of Defense.

 

 

 

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow 1987):

 

 

 

For outstanding research in the statistical theory of reliability, particularly for theory and practice of software reliability and for the application of Bayesian Statistical theory to expert systems.

 

 

 

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow 1982):

 

 

 

For excellent contributions to reliability and life testing.

 

 

 

American Statistical Association (Fellow 1974):

 

 

 

For significant contributions to reliability theory, accelerated testing, modelling of air pollution, and application of time series analysis.

 


Publications of

 

NOZER D. SINGPURWALLA

 

Books:

 

 

 

 

 

(1999)

Statistical Methods in Software Engineering:  Reliability and Risk.  (with S. P. Wilson).  New York:  Springer-Verlag.

 

(1997)

Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics.  Volume III (co-editor with C. Gatsonis, J. S. Hodges, and R. E. Kass).  New York:  Springer-Verlag.

 

 

 

 

(1995)

Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics.  Volume II (co-editor with C. Gatsonis, J. S. Hodges, and R. E. Kass).  New York:  Springer-Verlag.

 

 

 

 

(1993)

Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics (co-editor with C. Gatsonis, J. S. Hodges, and R. E. Kass).  New York: Springer-Verlag.

 

 

 

 

(1975)

Reliability and Fault Tree Analysis (co-editor with R. E. Barlow and J. B. Fussell).  Philadelphia:  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

 

 

 

 

(1974)

Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Data (with N. R. Mann and R. E. Schafer), Applied Probability and Statistics Series.  New York: Wiley

 

 

 

 

(1970)

(Editor), Environmental Engineering Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Engineering Science.

 

 

 

 

PAPERS:

 

175.

 

174.

 

 

173.

 

 

172.

 

 

171.

 

 

170.

 

 

169.

 

 

168.

 

 

167.

 

 

166.

 

 

 

165.

 

 

164.

 

 

163.

 

 

162.

 

 

 

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Warranty: A Surrogate of Reliability. Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective. To Appear.

 

Predicting Damage (with C. W. Kong and A. Swift). Mathematical Methods in Reliability 2002. To Appear

 

Bayesian Reliability: A Conversational Overview. Proceedings, the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium.

 

Testing the Untestable: Reliability in the 21st Century (with T. R. Bement, J. M. Booker and S. Keller-McNulty).  IEEE Transactions in Reliability (with Discussion).  Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 118-124.

 

Information Fusion for Damage Prediction (with Y. Cui and C. W. Kong).  In Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance (Blischke and Murthy, Eds.). pp. 251-265.  John Wiley and Sons, Inc.  New York.

 

Dependence in Network Reliability.  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Fusion.  IEEE Cat. No. 02EX5997C. pp. 981-985.

 

Software Reliability and the Operational Profile (with Mazzuchi, Ozekici, and Soyer).  Handbook of Statistics (C. R. Rao, and R. Khattre, Eds.).  To appear.

 

On Exchangeable, Causal and Cascading Failures (with Dennis Lindley).  Statistical Science.  Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 209-219.

 

On Causality and Causal Mechanisms (with Discussion).  International Statistical Review.  Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 198-206.

 

Some Cracks in the Empire of Chance: Flaws in the Foundations of Reliability.  International Statistical Review (with Discussion).  Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 53-78.

 

 

Reliability and Life Testing.  International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Neil Spencer and Paul Baltes, Eds).  Pergamon Press. Oxford. pp. 12624-12628.

 

Network Reliability and Borel’s Paradox (with A. Swift).  The American Statistician.  Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 213-218.

 

Uncertainties and Their Assessments (with J. Booker and T. Bement).  Third International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry, World Automation Congress, Maui, Hawaii.

 

Book Review of “Statistical Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment”, by George Box and Alberto Luceno, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997,  International Journal of Forecasting. 16, 129-130.

161.

(2000)

Warranty Contracts and Equilibrium Probabilities.  Statistical Science in the Courtroom (J. L. Gastwirth, Ed.).  Springer-Verlag.  363-377.

 

 

 

160.

(2000)

The Point Process Paradox:  Where Should We Extend the Conversation?  The American Statistician.  Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 119-120.

 

 

 

159.

(1999)

A Probabilistic Hierarchical Classification Model for Rating Suppliers.  Journal of Quality Technology.  Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 444-454.

 

 

 

158.

(1999)

On a Bivariate Distribution with Exponential Marginals  (with S. Kotz).  Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.  Vol. 26. 451-464.

 

157.

 

156.

 

(1999)

 

(1998)

 

Book Review of Engineering Reliability (Edited by Richard Barlow).  IIE Transactions.  31, 581-582.

 

Discussion of Parmigiani et. al.  In Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics.  Vol. IV. (Eds. Gatsonis et. al.). Springer Verlag, New York. 192-194.

 

155.

(1998)

Failure Models Indexed by Two Scales (with S. Wilson).  Advances in Applied Probability.  30,

1058-1072.

 

 

 

154.

(1998)

Data Fusion and Maintenance Policies for Continuous Production Processes (with Joseph N. Skwish).  In Statistical Case Studies, A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry (Peck, Haugh, and Goodman, Eds.). 167-178.

 

 

 

153.

(1998)

Software Reliability Modeling by Concatenating Failure Rates.  Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (IRRE ’98), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California. 106-110.

 

 

 

152.

(1998)

A Paradigm for Modeling and Tracking Reliability Growth.  In Reliability Growth Modeling (K.J. Farquar and A. Mosleh, Eds)  pp.121-125.  ISSN 1084-5685

 

 

 

151.

(1998)

An Adaptive Concatenated Failure Rate Model for Software Reliability (with Al-Mutairi, and Y. Chen).  Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 93, No. 443, pp. 1150-1163.

 

 

 

150.

(1998)

A Bayesian Approach for Assessing Software Quality and Productivity  (with W. Humphrey).  International Journal of Reliability, Quality, and Safety.  Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 195-209.

 

 

 

149.

(1998)

The Stochastic Control of Process Capability Indices (with Discussion).  Test:  A Journal of the Spanish  Statistical Society,  Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-74.

 

 

 

148.

(1998)

Bayesian Assessment of Network Reliability (with N. Lynn and A.F.M. Smith).  SIAM Review. Vol. 40, No.2, pp. 202-227

 

 

 

147.

(1997)

Burn-in Makes us Feel Good (with N. Lynn).  Statistical Science.  Vol. 12, No. 1: 13-19.

 

 

 

146.

(1997)

Gamma Processes and Their Generalizations:  An Overview.  In Engineering Probabilistic Design and Maintenance for Flood Protection (R. Cook, M. Mendel and H. Vrijling, Eds).  Kluwer Acad. Publishers, 67-73. 

 

 

 

145.

(1997)

Unification of Software Reliability Models via Self- Exciting Point Processes (with Yiping Chen).  Advances in Applied Probability.  Vol. 29, No. 2: 337-352.

 

 

 

144.

(1997)

Calculating the Reserve for a Time and Usage Indexed Warranty (with J. Eliashberg and S. Wilson).  Management Science.  Vol. 43, No. 7: 966-975.

 

 

 

143.

(1996)

Probabilistic Aspects of Material Failure (with David Bizup).  In Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability (D. M. Frangpol and M. Grigoriu, Eds.), 474-477. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

 

 

 

142.

(1996)

The Notion of “Composite Reliability” and its Hierarchical Bayes Estimation (with Jingxian Chen).  Journal of the American Statistical Association.  Vol. 91, No. 436: 1474-1484.

 

 

 

141.

(1996)

The Role of Decision Analysis in Software Engineering (with J. Merrick).  In Reliability and Maintenance of Complex Systems (S. Ozekici, Ed.), 368-388.  NATO ASI Series.  Springer Verlag.

 

 

 

140.

(1996)

Assessing the Reliability of Software:  An Overview (with R. Soyer).  In Reliability and Maintenance of Complex Systems (S. Ozekici, Ed.), 345-367.  NATO ASI Series.  Springer Verlag.

 

 

 

139.

(1996)

Statistical Aspects of Failure Processes in Ceramics (with S. Wilson and E. Fuller).  In Bayesian Statistics 5 (J. Berger, J. Bernardo, P. David and A. Smith, Eds), 369-386.  Clarendon Press, Oxford.

 

 

 

138.

(1996)

Forecasting Warranty Claims (with J. Chen and N. Lynn).  In Product Warranty Handbook (W. R. Blishke and P. Murthy, Eds), 803-816.  Marcel Dekker, Inc.  New York.

 

 

 

137.

(1996)

Entropy and Information in Reliability.  In Bayesian Analysis in Statistics and Econometrics:  Essays in Honor of Arnold Zellner (D. A. Berry, K. M. Chaloner and J. Geweke, Eds.), 459-469.  John Wiley and Sons, New York.

 

 

 

136.

(1995)

Markov Mesh Models for Filtering and Forecasting with Leading Indicators (with J. Chen and N. Lynn).  Analysis of Censored Data (H. L. Kouland and J. V. Deshpande, Eds.).  IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series (1995), Vol. 27, 39-54.

 

 

 

135.

(1995)

The Assignment of Membership in Capability Maturity Models for Software Production (with J. Merrick).  Invited Paper.  Proceedings of the 50th Session of The International Statistical Institute, 727-733.  Beijing, China.

 

 

 

134.

(1995)

The Failure Rate of Software: Does it exist?.  The IEEE Transactions in Reliability.  Vol. 44, No. 3: 463-469.

 

 

 

133.

(1995)

Survival in Dynamic Environments.  Statistical Science.  Vol. 10, No. 1: 86-103.

 

 

 

132.

(1995)

The Exponentiation Formula of Reliability and Survival:  Does it always hold?  (with S. Wilson).  Life Data Analysis.  Kluwer Academic Publishers.  Vol. 1, 187-194.

 

 

 

131.

(1995)

Inference and Predictions from Poisson Point Processes Incorporating Expert Knowledge (with Sylvia Campódonico).  Journal of the American Statistical Association.  Vol. 90, No. 429: 220-226.

 

 

 

130.

(1994)

Software Reliability Modeling (with Simon Wilson).  International Statistical Review.  Vol. 62, No. 3: 289-317.

 

 

 

129.

(1994)

A Non-Gaussian Kalman Filter Model for Tracking Software Reliability (with Yiping Chen).  Statistica Sinica.  Vol. 4, No. 2: 535-548.

 

 

 

128.

(1994)

The Signature as a Covariate in Reliability and Biometry (with Sylvia Campódonico).   In Aspects of Uncertainty (A. F. M. Smith and P. R. Freeman, Eds.), 119-148.  John Wiley and Sons.  New York.

 

 

 

127.

(1994)

Modelling Software Failure Probability/Reliability (with S. Wilson).  Hazard Prevention.  Vol. 30, No. 3: 14-25.

 

 

 

 

126.

(1994)

A Bayesian Analysis of the Logarithmic-Poisson Execution Time Model Based on Expert Opinion and Failure Data (with Sylvia Campódonico).  IEEE Transactins in Software Engineering.  Vol. 20, No. 9: 677-683.

 

 

 

125.

(1994)

Control Theory Methods in Product Quality Assurance:  An Illustration of Open Loop Control (with J. Chen and P. Murthy).  Applied Statistical Science.  Vol. 1, No. 3: 263-278.

 

 

 

124.

(1994)

To Survive or To Fail:  That is the Question (with P. Abel).  The American Statistician.  Vol. 48, No. 1: 18-21.

 

 

 

123.

(1993)

Multivariate Distributions Induced by Dynamic Environments (with Mark Youngren).  Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.  Vol. 20: 251-261.

 

 

 

122.

(1993)

Shannon Information, Bayesian Design and Accelerated Life Testing (with N. Polson and I. Verdinelli).  In Reliability and Decision Making (R. E. Barlow, C. A. Clarotti, and F. Spizzichino, Eds), 247-256.  London: Chapman and Hall.

 

 

 

121.

(1993)

Design by Decision Theory:  A Unifying Perspective on Taguchi’s Approach to Quality Engineering.  Chapter 14 in Reliability and Decision Making (R. E. Barlow, C.A. Clarotti, and F. Spizzichino, Eds.), 267-272.  London: Chapman and Hall.

 

 

 

120.

(1993)

Adversarial Life Testing (with Dennis Lindley).  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Vol. 55, No. 4: 837-847.

 

 

 

119.

(1993)

Models for Assessing the Reliability of Computer Software, (with Simon Wilson).  Naval Research Reviews, Vol. 44, No. 4/Vol. 45, No. 1: 21-29. 

 

 

 

118.

(1993)

Warranties:  Their Statistical and Game Theoretic Aspects (with Simon Wilson).  SIAM Review, Vol. 35, No. 1: 17-42. 

 

 

 

117.

(1993)

An Eavesdrop on a Chance Encounter of Like Minded Ghosts.  In Advances in Reliability (A.P. Basu, Ed.), 459-469.  North Holland.

 

 

 

116.

(1992)

A Bayesian Perspective on Taguchi’s Approach to Quality Engineering and Tolerance Design.  Institute for Industrial Engineering Transactions, Vol. 24, No. 5: 18-32.

 

 

 

115.

(1992)

A Conversation with Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko (with Richard Smith).  Statistical Science, Vol. 7, No. 2: 273-283.

 

 

 

114.

(1992)

Survival Under Multiple Time Scales in Dynamic Environments.  In Survival Analysis: State of the Art (J. P. Klein and P. K. Goel, eds.), 345-354.  NATO ASI Series.  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

 

 

 113.

(1992)

Discussion of Thiruvaiyaru and Basawa’s “Empirical Bayes Estimation for Queueing Systems.”  Queueing Systems, Vol. 11: 203-206.

 

 

 

112.

(1992)

Warranties (with Simon Wilson).  In Bayesian Statistics 4 (J. Berger, J. Bernardo, P. David and A. Smith, Eds.), 435-446.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.

 

 

 

111.

(1992)

Nonhomogeneous Autoregressive Processes for Tracking (Software) Reliability Growth, and their Bayesian Analysis (with Refik Soyer).  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Sereies B, Vol. 54, No. 1: 145-156.

 

 

 

110.

(1992)

Filtering, Smoothing, and Extrapolations in Dose-Response Experiments with Application to Data on a Respiratory Tumors of Rats (with J. Chen).  In Bayesian Analysis in Statistics and Econometrics (P. K. Goel and N. S. Iyengar, Eds.).  New York: Springer-Verlag.

 

 

 

109.

(1991)

On the Evidence Needed to Reach Agreed Action Between Adversaries with Application to Acceptance Sampling (with Dennis Lindley).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 86, No. 416: 933-937.

 

 

 

108.

(1991)

Failure Models Indexed by Time and Usage (with S. Wilson).  48th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Proceedings of Invited Papers, Cairo, Egypt, 4/27.

 

 

 

107.

(1991)

A Stopping Rule for Software Testing (with R. Soyer).  48th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Book 2, Cairo, Egypt, 624-625.

 

 

 

106.

(1991)

Determining an Optimal Time Interval for Testing and Debugging Software.  IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 4: 313-319.

 

 

 

105.

(1991)

Predicting (Individual) Software Productivity (with W. Humphrey).  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 2: 196-207.

 

 

 

104.

(1991)

Stochastically Monotone Dependence (with B. Brady).  In Topics in Statistical Dependence (H. W. Block, A. R. Sampson, and T. H. Savits, Eds.), 93-102.  Lecture Notes/Monograph Series.  Hayward, CA:  The Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

 

 

 

103.

(1991)

Models for Dependent Lifelengths Induced by Common Environments (with M.A. Youngren).  In Topics in Statistical Dependence (H. W. Block, A. R. Sampson, and T. H. Savits, Eds.), 435-441.  Lecture Notes/Monograph Series.  Hayward, CA:  The Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

 

 

 

102.

(1991)

Inference Under Planned Maintenance, Warranties, and Other Retrospective Data.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 29, No. 1/2: 171-185.

 

 

 

101.

(1990)

A Bayesian Approach for Quantile and Response Probability Estimation with Application to Reliability (with M. Shaked).  Annals of the Institute of Statistical mathematics, Vol. 42, No. 1: 1-19.

 

 

 

100.

(1989)

A Discussion of R.L. Smith’s “Extreme Value Analysis of Environmental Time Series:  An Application of Trend Detection in Ground –Level Ozone.”  Statistical Science, Vol. 4,  No. 4: 367-393.

 

 

 

 99.

(1989)

A Unifying Perspective on Statistical Modeling.  SIAM Review, Vol. 31, No. 4: 560-564.

 

 

 

 98.

(1989)

Preposterior Analysis in Software Testing.  In Statistical Data Analysis and Inference (Y. Dodge, Ed.), 581-595.  Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, North-Holland. 

 

 

 

 97.

(1989)

Invited Discussant of J.I. Ansell and M.J. Phillips’ “Practical Problems in Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data” (with discussion).  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Vol. 38, No. 2: 205-247.

 

 

 

 96.

(1989)

Robustification of Kalman Filter Models (with R. Meinhold).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 406: 479-488.

 

 

 

 95.

(1989)

A Bear-Trap in Using the Iowa-Curve Methodology for Property Retirements and Depreciation Charges (with W. Edwards Deming).  The American Statistician, Vol. 43, No. 1: 12-16.

 

 

 

 94.

(1988)

On the Reliability Function of a System of Components Sharing a Common Environment (with A. Currit).  Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 25, No. 4: 763-771.

 

 

 

 93.

(1988)

A Discussion of M. J. Bayarri and M. H. DeGroot’s “Gaining Weight: A Bayesian Approach.”  In Bayesian Statistics 3 (J. M. Bernard, M. H. DeGroot, D. V. Lindley, and A. F. M. Smith, Eds.), 39-42.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.

 

 

 

 92.

(1988)

Estimation from Accelerated Tests and Short-Term Tests in Reliability and Medicine.  Invited Discussion, Proceedings of the 46th Session, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Book 4, 191-193.

 

 

 

 91.

(1988)

Inference from Accelerated Life Tests Using Filtering in Coloured Noise (with Louis M. Blackwell).  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B, Vol. 50, No. 2: 281-292.

 

 

 

 90.

(1988)

A Review of Advances in Structural Reliability (A. C. Lucia, Ed.).  Metrika: An International Journal of  Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Vol. 35, Issue 6: 377-378.

 

 

 

 89.

(1988)

Inferences from Accelerated Tests:  Some Recent Results (with T. A. Mazzuchi).  In Accelerated Life Testing and Expert Opinion in Reliability (C. A. Clarotti and D. V. Lindley, Eds.), 181-192.  New York: North Holland, Elsvier Science Publishing Co.

 

 

 

 88.

(1988)

An Elementary Framework for the Use of Control Theory Methods for Product Quality Control (with P. Murthy).  In Proceedings of the 32nd European Organization for Quality Control Conference.  Moscow.

 

 

 

 87.

(1988)

The Use of Expert Opinion in Reliability:  A Survey (with R. Soyer).  In Accelerated Life Testing and Expert Opinion in Reliability (C. A. Clarotti and D. V. Lindley, Eds.), 106-115.  New York: North Holland, Elsevier Science Publishing Co.

 

 

 

 86.

(1988)

An Interactive PC-Based Procedure for Reliability Assessment Incorporating Expert Opinion and Survival Data.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 83, No. 401: 43-51.

 

 

 

 85.

(1988)

Foundational Issues in Reliability and Risk Analysis.  SIAM Review, Vol. 30, No. 2: 264-282.

 

 

 

 84.

(1988)

Software Reliability Models (with T. A. Mazzuchi).  In Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 7 (P. R. Krishnaiah and C. R. Rao, Eds.), 73-98.  Amsterdam: North Holland.

 

 

 

 83.

(1988)

Software Reliability.  In  Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, Vol. 8 (S. Kotz, N. L. Johnson and C. Read, Eds.), 560-564.  New York: Wiley.

 

 

 

 82.

(1988)

Reliability Analysis Using Weibull Lifetime Data and Expert Opinion (with Mao Shi Song).  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 37, No. 3: 340-347.

 

 

 

 81.

(1987)

Analysis of Weibull Lifetime Data Incorporating Expert Opinion (with Mao Shi Song).  In Probability and Bayesian Statistics (R. Viertl, Ed.), 431-442.  New York: Plenum.

 

 

 

 80.

(1987)

A Kalman Filter Smoothing Approach for Extrapolations in Certain Dose-Response, Damage Assessment and Accelerated Life Testing Studies (with R. Meinhold).  The American Statistician, Vol. 41, No. 2: 101-106.

 

 

 

 79.

(1987)

A Subjective Bayesian Approach to the Theory of Queues: Part II—Inference and Information (with M. McGrath).  Queueing Systems, Vol. 1: 335-353.

 

 

 

 78.

(1987)

A Subjective Bayesian Approach to the Theory of Queues: Part I—Modelling (with M. McGrath and D. Gross).  Queueing Systems, Vol. 1: 317-333.

 

 

 

 77.

(1987)

Relevance of the Bayesian Paradigm for “Applied Probabilists.”  Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 9: 615-628.

 

 

 

 76.

(1987)

A Discussion of A.L. Rukhin and H.K. Hsieh’s “Survey of Soviet Work in Reliability.”  Statistical Science, Vol. 2, No. 4: 497-499.

 

 

 

 75.

(1986)

Comment on I. J. Good’s “Some Statistical Applications of Poisson’s Work.”  Statistical Science, Vol. 1, No. 2: 157-179.

 

 

 

 74.

(1986)

Reliability and Fault Tree Analysis Using Expert Opinions (with Dennis Lindley).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 81, No. 393: 87-90.

 

 

 

 73.

(1986)

Multivariate Distributions for the Life Lengths of Components of a System Sharing a Common Environment (with Dennis Lindley).  Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 23, No. 2: 418-431.

 

 

 

 72.

(1986)

Monitoring the Reliability of an Arsenal Using a Combined Bayesian and Sample Theoretic Approach (with R. Launer).  In Reliability and Quality Control (A.P. Basu, Ed.), 245-255.  Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North-Holland).

 

 

 

 71.

(1985)

Assessing (Software) Reliability Growth Using a Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process and Its Ramifications (with R. Soyer).  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-11, No. 12 (December): 1456-1464.

 

 

 

 70.

(1985)

Robustness of Sequential Exponential Life Testing Procedures (with E. R. Montagne).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 80, No. 391: 715-719.

 

 

 

 69.

(1985)

A Unification of Some Software Reliability Models (with N. Langberg).  SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Vol. 6, No. 3: 781-790.

 

 

 

 68.

(1985)

Assessing the Reliability of Computer Software and Computer Networks:  An Opportunity for Partnership with Computer Scientists (with Richard Barlow).  The American Statistician, Vol. 39, No. 2: 88-94.

 

 

 

 67.

(1985)

A Bayesian Approach to Inference for Monotone Failure Rates (with T. A. Mazzuchi).  Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 3, No. 3: 135-141.

 

 

 

 66.

(1984)

A Bayes Empirical Bayes Approach for (Software) Reliability Growth (with M. Horigome and R. Soyer).  In Proceedings of the 16th Computer Science and Statistics Symposium on the Interface, Atlanta, GA, March 14-16 (L. Billard, Ed.), 47-56.  Amsterdam: North Holland.

 

 

 

 65.

(1984)

Bayesian Inference for the Weibull Process with Applications to Assessing Software Reliability Growth and Predicting Software Failures (with J. Kyparisis).  In Proceedings of the 16th Computer Science and Statistics Symposium on the Interface, Atlanta, GA, March 14-16 (L. Billard, Ed.), 57-64.  Amsterdam: North Holland.

 

 

 

 64.

(1984)

A Combined Bayes-Sampling Theory Method for Monitoring a Bernoulli Process (with R. L. Launer).  In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on the Design of Experiments in Army Research, Development and Testing, 23-26.

 

 

 

 63.

(1984)

An Empirically Developed Fourier Series Model for Describing Software Failures (with L. H. Crow).  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-33, No. 2: 176-183.

 

 

 

 62.

(1984)

A Kalman Filter Approach to Accelerated Life Testing – A Preliminary Development (with R. J. Meinhold).  In Reliability Theory and Models (A. Hameed, E. Cinlar, and J. Quinn, Eds.), 169-175.  New York: Academic Press.

 

 

 

 61.

(1984)

Stochastic Properties of a Sequence of Interfailure Times Under Minimal Repair and Under Revival (with H. Balaban).  In Reliability Theory and Models (A. Hameed, E. Cinlar, and J. Quinn, Eds.), 65-80. New York: Academic Press.

 

 

 

 60.

(1983)

Understanding the Kalman Filter (with R. J. Meinhold).  The American Statistician, Vol. 37, No. 2: 123-127.

 

 

 

 59.

(1983)

Kernel Estimators of the Failure Rate Function and Density Estimation:  An Analogy (with M.-Y. Wong).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 78, No. 382 (June): 478-481.

 

 

 

 58.

(1983)

Inference from Step-Stress Accelerated Tests (with M. Shaked).  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.  Vol. 7: 295-306.

 

 

 

 57.

(1983)

Bayesian Analysis of a Commonly Used Model for Describing Software Failures (with R. J. Meinhold).  The Statistician, Vol. 32, No. 2: 168-173.

 

 

 

 56.

(1983)

Estimation of the Failure Rate—A Survey of Nonparametric Methods: Part I, Non-Bayesian Methods (with M.-Y. Wong).  Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, Vol. 12, No. 5:  559-588.

 

 

 

 55.

(1983)

A Summary of Some Recent Results in Software Reliability Modelling and Analysis (with L. H. Crow).  In Proceedings of the 1983 Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications.  IEEE: 103-104.

 

 

 

 54.

(1983)

Some Bayesian Approaches for Estimating the Failure Rate (with T. A. Mazzuchi).  In Electronic Systems Effectiveness and Life Cycle Costing (J. Skwirzynski, Ed.), 75-92.  Vol. F3 of NATO ASI Series.  Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

 

 

 

 53.

(1983)

Some Problems in Simulating the Quantiles of the Maxima and Other Functionals of Gaussian Processes (with M. Chandra and M. Stephens).  Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 18: 45-47.

 

 

 

 52.

(1983)

Military Standards for Sequential Life Testing.  In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 5, 490-493.  New York: Wiley.

 

 

 

 51.

(1983)

Military Standards for Fixed Length Life Tests.  In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 5, 488-490.  New York: Wiley.

 

 

 

 50.

(1983)

Life Testing (with N. R. Mann).  In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 4, 632-639.  New York: Wiley.

 

 

 

 49.

(1982)

Fourier Integral Estimate of the Failure Rate Function and Its Mean Square Error Properties (with M.-Y. Wong).  In Survival Analysis, Vol. 2 of Lecture Notes/Monograph Series.  Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 41-55.

 

 

 

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(1982)

Testing of Hypotheses for Distributions in Accelerated Life Testing (with J. Sethuraman).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 77, No. 377: 204-208.

 

 

 

 47.

(1982)

On the Sample Redundancy and a Test for Exponentiality (with M. Chandra and T. De Wet).  Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), Vol. 11, No. 4: 429-438.

 

 

 

 46.

(1982)

Nonparametric Estimation and Goodness of Fit Testing for Distributions in Accelerated Testing (with M. Shaked).  IEEE Transactions in Reliability, Vol. R-31, No. 1: 69-74.

 

 

 

 45.

(1982)

Extreme Value Distributions (with N. R. Mann).  In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 2, 606-613.  New York: Wiley.

 

 

 

 44.

(1982)

The U.S. Army’s (BRL’s) Kinetic Energy Penetrator Problem:  Estimating the Probability of Response for a Given Stimulus (with T. A. Mazzuchi).  In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on the Design of Experiments in Army Research Development Testing, ARO Report 82-2, 27-59.

 

 

 

 43.

(1982)

An Adaptive Bayesian Scheme for Estimating Reliability Growth Under Exponential Failure Times.  In Optimization in Statistics, Vol. 19 of Studies in the Management Sciences.  Providence, RI: The Institute of Management Sciences, 281-296.

 

 

 

 42.

(1982)

A Time Series Analysis of Some Interrelated Logistics Performance Variables (with C. M. Talbott, Jr.).  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4: 571-583.

 

 

 

 41.

(1981)

Large Sample Estimates and Uniform Confidence Bounds for the Failure Rate Function Based on a Naïve Estimator (with J. Sethuraman).  Annals of Statistics, Vol. 9. No. 3: 628-632.

 

 

 

 40.

(1981)

Kolmogorov Statistics for Tests of it for the Extreme Value and the Weibull Distribution (with M. Chandra and M. Stephens).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 76, No. 375: 729-731.

 

 

 

 39.

(1981)

Relationships Between Some Notions Which are Common to Reliability Theory and Economics (with M. Chandra).  Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 6, No. 1: 113-121.

 

 

 

 38.

(1981)

Reliability Model for Sectionalized Precipitators (with R. Matland).  Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, Vol. 31, No. 2: 144-147.

 

 

 

 37.

(1981)

Current Research in Reliability:  An Overview.  In Reliability in the Acquisitions Process, Vol. 4 of Lecture Notes in Statistics (D. DePriest and R. Launer, Eds.), 101-114, New York: Marcel Dekker.

 

 

 

 36.

(1981)

Some Thoughts on Reliability Theory.  Applied Probability Newsletter, Operations Research Society of America, Spring.

 

 

 

 35.

(1981)

Minimum Mean Square Error Consistent Expectations and the Cobweb Theory (with B. D. Nussbaum).  Aligarh Journal of Statistics, Vol. 1, No. 2: 165-173.

 

 

 

 34.

(1980)

Failure Rate Estimation Using Random Smoothing (with D. R. Miller).  Sankhya Series B, Vol. 42, Parts 3 & 4: 217-228.

 

 

 

 33.

(1980)

A New Approach to Inference from Accelerated Life Tests (with F. Proschan).  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-29, No. 2: 98-102.

 

 

 

 

 32.

(1980)

An Assessment of the Benefits Due to Reliability Centered Maintenance (with C. M. Talbott, Jr.).  Air Force Journal of Logistics, Winter: 11-15.

 

 

 

 31.

(1980)

Analyzing Availability Using Transfer Function Models and Cross-Spectral Analysis.  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1: 1-16.

 

 

 

 30.

(1979)

A Review of “Variational Methods in Statistics” by J. S. Rustagi, Academic Press (1976).  Interfaces, a TIMS/ORSA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, Part 1: 111.

 

 

 

 29.

(1979)

Accelerated Life Testing—A Pragmatic Bayesian Approach (with F. Proschan).  In Optimizing Methods in Statistics (J. S. Rustagi, Ed.), 385-401. New York: Academic Press.

 

 

 

 28.

(1979)

Optimal Time Intervals for Testing Hypotheses on Computer Software (with E. H. Forman).  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-28, No. 3: 250-253.

 

 

 

 27.

(1978)

Time Series Analysis of Failure Data.  In Proceedings 1978 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 107-112.

 

 

 

 26.

(1978)

A Bayesian Assessment of Coherent Structures (with D. V. Mastran).  Operations Research, Vol. 26, No. 4: 663-672.

 

 

 

 25.

(1978)

Estimating Reliability Growth Using Time Series Analysis.  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1: 1-14.

 

 

 

 24.

(1977)

Some Definitions and Implications for Classes of Multivariate Life Distributions (with W. B. Buchanan).  In The Theory and Applications of Reliability, with Emphasis on Bayesian and Nonparametric Methods (I. N. Shimi and C. P. Tsokos, Eds.).  New York: Academic Press.

 

 

 

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(1977)

Accelerated Life Tests Using the Power Law Model for the Weibull Distribution (with F. A. Al-Khayyal).  In The Theory and Applications of Reliability, with Emphasis on Bayesian and Nonparametric Methods (I. N. Shimi and C. P. Tsokos, Eds.).  New York: Academic Press.

 

 

 

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(1977)

An Empirical Stopping Rule for Debugging and Testing Computer Software (with E. H. Forman).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 72, No. 360: 750-757.

 

 

 

 21.

(1976)

A Method for Reliability Estimation of Logical Structures (with D. V. Mastran).  Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 8: 229-237.

 

 

 

 20.

(1976)

Some Results on the Weak Convergence of the Failure Rate Process (abstract).  Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 8, No. 2.

 

 

 

 19.

(1975)

Inference from Accelerated Life Tests Using Eyring Type Reparameterizations (with V. F. Castellino and D. Y. Goldschen).  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2.

 

 

 

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(1975)

Time Series Analysis and Forecasting of Failure Rate Processes.  In Reliability and Fault Tree Analysis (Ed., with R. E. Barlow and J. B. Fussell).  Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

 

 

 

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(1975)

Inequalities for Certain Functions of Order Statistics for IFR Distributions (with R. E. Brown).  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 70, No. 349.

 

 

 

 16.

(1975)

On the Predictive Performance of the BEA Quarterly Econometric Model and a Box-Jenkins Type ARIMA Model (with G.V. L. Narasimham).  In 1974 Business and Economic Statistics Section Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

 

 

 

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(1974)

Averaging Time and Maxima for Dependent Observations (with R. E. Barlow).  In Proceedings of the Symposium on Statistical Aspects of Air Quality Data, EPA-650/4-74-038.  Washington, DC: Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

 

 

 

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(1974)

Models in Air Pollution.  In A Guide to Models in Government Planning and Operations.  Washington, DC:  Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environment Protection Agency.  61-102.

 

 

 

 13.

(1974)

Estimation of a Join Point in Heteroschedastic Regression Models for Accelerated Life Testing.  Communications in Statistics, Vol. 3, No. 9: 853-863.

 

 

 

 12.

(1974)

Some Contributions to the Stochastic Characterization of Wear (with A. L. Haines).  In Reliability and Biometry (F. Proschan and R. Serfling, Eds.).  Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  47-80.

 

 

 

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(1973)

Inference from Accelerated Life Tests Using Arrhenius Type Reparameterizations.  Technometrics, Vol. 15, No. 2: 289-299.

 

 

 

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(1972)

Extreme Values from a Lognormal Law with Application to Air Pollution Problems.  Technometrics, Vol. 14, No. 3: 703-711.

  

 

 

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(1972)

Accelerated Life Tests, A Survey of Developments.  In Proceedings of the 1972 NATO Conference on Reliability Testing and Reliability Evaluation.  VII-D-1 to D-15.

 

 

 

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(1971)

A Problem in Accelerated Life Testing.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 66, No. 336: 841-845.

 

 

 

  7.

(1971)

Inference from Accelerated Tests.  Technometrics, Vol. 13, No. 1:  161-170.

 

 

 

  6.

(1971)

Statistical Fatigue Model—A Survey.  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-20, No. 3: 185-189.

 

 

 

  5.

(1971)

Reliability Analysis of a Computerized Urban Traffic Control System (with W. G. Marchal).  Annals of Assurance Sciences, Vol. 10: 354-359.

 

 

 

  4.

(1970)

A Sequential Bayes Procedure for Reliability Demonstration (with R. E. Schafer).  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1: 55-67.

 

 

 

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(1969)

Estimation in Weibull Distributions with Random Scale Parameters (with C. M. Harris).  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3: 405-409.

 

 

 

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(1967)

Life Distributions Derived from Stochastics Hazard Functions (with C.M. Harris).  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-17, No. 2: 70-79.

 

 

 

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(1966)

A Quantitative Evaluation of Drill Life (with A. A. Keubler).  American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 66-WA/PROD-11.

 


SUPERVISIION OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

 

 

AUTHOR

DISSERTATION TITLE

 

 

 

 1

Robert H. Brown (Ph.D. 1972)

“Inequalities for Optimal Sampling when the Payoff is Linear Combination of Order Statistics from Restricted Families”

 

 

 

 2

John R. Transue (Ph.D. 1972)

“Some Contributions to the Theory of Discrete Uniform Distributions”

 

 

 

 3

Chantee Lewis (D.B.A. 1972)

“Simultaneous Equation Production Functions (Cobb-Douglas Type) for Decisions Pertaining to Sea-Based Tactical Air Resources”

 

 

 

 4

Andrew L. Haines (Ph.D. 1973)

“Some Contributions to the Theory of Restricted Classes of Distributions with Applications to Reliability”

 

 

 

 5

David V. Mastran (Ph.D. 1973)

“On Bayesian Assessments of Coherent Systems”

 

 

 

 6

Ernest H. Forman (Ph.D. 1974)

“Statistical Models and Methods for Measuring Software Reliability”

 

 

 

 7

William Buchanan (Ph.D. 1974)

“On the Multivariate Characterization of Wear”

 

 

 

 8

Henry D. Kahn (Ph.D. 1977)

“The Statistical Analysis of Some Models Used in Accelerated Life Testing”

 

 

 

 9

Barry D. Nussbaum (Ph.D. 1977)

“A Time Series Analysis of Some Simultaneous Equation Stochastic Models”

 

 

 

10

Harold Balaban (Ph.D. 1978)

“A Stochastic Characterization of Failure Processes Under Repair”

 

 

 

11

Mahesh Chandra (Ph.D. 1978)

“Some Contributions to the Methodology for Analyzing Failure Data”

 

 

 

12

James W. Johnson (Ph.D. 1980)

“A Bayesian Analysis of Flood Flow Data”

 

 

 

13

Man-Yuen Wong (Ph.D. 1980)

“Jackknifing Failure Rate Estimators and an Alternate Interpretation of Kernels for Density Estimates”

 

 

 

14

Ernest  R. Montagne (Ph.D. 1981)

“Robustness of the Exponential Sequential Life Testing Procedure when the Distribution has Monotone Failure Rate”

 

 

 

15

Thomas A. Mazzuchi (Ph.D. 1982)

“Some Nonparametric Bayesian Estimates of the Failure Rate Function”

 

 

 

16

Richard J. Meinhold (Ph.D. 1984)

“A Bayesian Approach to Robust Kalman Filtering”

 

 

 

17

Louis M. Blackwell II (Ph.D. 1984)

“A Kalman Filter Approach to Accelerated Life Testing”

 

 

 

18

Refik Soyer (Ph.D. 1984)

“Random Coefficient Autoregressive Processes and their Ramifications: Applications to Reliability Growth Assessment”

 

 

 

19

Michael F. McGrath (Ph.D. 1986)

“A Subjective Bayesian Approach to Queueing Theory”

 

 

 

20

Bennett M. Brady (Ph.D. 1987)

“Stochastic Positive and Negative Dependence”

 

 

 

21

Mark A. Youngren (Ph.D. 1987)

“On Dependent Life Lengths Induced by Dynamic Environments”

 

 

 

22

Khalid Aboura (Ph.D. 1989)

“Acceptance Sampling in a Competitive Environment:  A Sequential Game”

 

 

 

23

Patricia S. Abel (Ph.D. 1991)

“Information and the Design of Life Tests”

 

 

 

24

Sylvia Campodonico (Ph.D. 1993)

“The Signature as a Covariate in Reliability and Biometry”

 

 

 

25

Yiping Chen (Ph.D. 1993)

“Unification of Software Reliability Models by Self-Exciting Point Processes”

 

 

 

26

Simon Wilson (Ph.D. 1993)

“Failure Modeling with Multiple Scales”

 

 

 

27

Jingxian Chen (Ph.D. 1994)

“Composite Reliability and Its Hierarchical Bayes Estimation”

 

 

 

28

Nicholas Lynn (Ph.D. 1996)

“Distributed Detection with Adversarial and Cooperative Sensors”

 

 

 

29

Yefim Vladimirski (Ph.D. 2000)

“Optimum Reliability Allocation”

 

 

 

30

Yuling Cui (Ph.D. 2001)

“Information Fusion for Damage Prediction”

 

 

 

31

Andrew W. Swift (Ph.D. 2001)

“Stochastic Models of Cascading Failures”

 

 

 

32

Kimberly F. Sellers (Ph.D. 2001)

“Vague Coherent Systems”

 

 

 

33

Byeon Seung (Ph.D. 2002)

“Altruistic and Adversarial Warranties”

 

 

 

34

 

35

Chung Wai Kong (Ph.D. 2002)

 

Faisal Al-Malik (Ph.D. 2003)

“Neural Nets for Network Reliability”

 

“Isomorphic Relationships in Financial Risk”