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statistical analysis of lifelength : papers
Conference on Reliability and Biometry, Florida State University, 1973.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Frank Proschan and R. J. Serfling, Preface (pp. ix-x). Topic 1. Classes of life distributions and their properties: Discussion by the editors -- J. D. Esary and A. W. Marshall, Some classes of distributions closed under the formation of coherent systems -- J. D. Esary and A. W. Marshall, Families of components, and systems, exposed to a compound Poisson damage process -- Andrew L. Haines and Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Some contributions to the stochastic characterization of wear -- Julian Keilson, Monotonicity and convexity in system survival functions and metabolic disappearance curves -- . Topic 2. Stochastic processes: Discussion by the editors -- R. J. Serfling, Research in point processes, with applications in reliability and biometry -- Richard E. Barlow and Joao L. M. Saboia, Bounds and inequalities on the rate of population growth -- P. A. W. Lewis and D. W. Robinson, Testing for a monotone trend in a modulated renewal process -- Jerzy Neyman, A view of biometry: an interdisciplinary domain concerned with chance mechanisms operating in living organisms; illustration: urethan carcinogenesis -- . Topic 3. Linear models: Kenneth W. Fertig and Nancy R. Mann, Population percentile estimation for the unbalanced random-effect model: estimation of the strength of a material when sampling from various batches of the material -- S. R. Searle, Prediction, mixed models, and variance components -- . Topic 4. Competing risks: Discussion by the editors -- H. A. David, Parametric approaches to the theory of competing risks -- Larry Lee and W. A. Thompson, Jr., Results on failure time and pattern for the series system -- Lloyd Fisher and Paula Kanarek, Presenting censored survival data when censoring and survival times may not be independent -- Byron Wm. Brown, Jr., Myles Hollander and Ramesh M. Korwar, Nonparameteric tests of independence for censored data, with applications to heart transplant studies -- . Topic 5. Prediction and estimation of system reliability: Discussion by the editors -- Bernard Harris and Andrew P. Soms, Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for a multiplicative Poisson model with applications to reliability and bioassay -- Larry H. Crow, Reliability analysis for complex, repairable systems -- . Topic 6. Life testing: Discussion by the editors -- Frank Proschan and Pasquale Sullo, Estimating the parameters of a bivariate exponential distribution in several sampling situations -- Z. W. Birnbaum, Computers and unconventional test-statistics -- Richard A. Johnson, Some optimality results for one and two sample procedures based on the smallest $r$ order statistics -- . Topic 7. Comparison of populations: ranking, selection, classification and similarity measurement: Discussion by the editors -- Shanti S. Gupta and S. Panchapakesan, Inference for restricted families: (A) multiple decision procedures; (B) order statistics inequalities -- R. E. Schafter, A single-sample complete ordering procedure for certain populations -- David G. Hoel and George H. Weiss, Comparison of methods for choosing the better of two negative exponential lifetime distributions -- A. P. Basu and A. K. Gupta, Classification rules for exponential populations -- Gerald Van Belle and Ibrahim Ahmad, Measuring affinity of distributions -- . Topic 8. Applications in reliability and biometry: Richard G. Cornell, The evaluation of health-service programs -- Nanak Chand and D. G. Hoel, A comparison of models for determining safe levels of environmental agents -- M. Zelen, Problems in cell kinetics and the early detection of disease -- Richard A. Albanese, Reliability of human control -- . Topic 9. Statistical theory and methods not specifically directed towards reliability and biometry: Z. Govindarajulu, Fixed-width confidence intervals for $P(X<Y)$ -- Ingram Olkin, Inference for a normal population when the parameters exhibit some structure -- G. S. Watson, Detecting signals in Poisson noise -- B. G. Greenberg, D. G. Horvitz and J. R. Abernathy, A comparison of randomized response designs.
edited by Frank Proschan and R. J. Serfling.
Sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Cancer Institute, and the Dept. of Statistics of the Florida State University.