Cohen A. Parameter Estimation in Reliability and Life Span Models 1988

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Offers an applications-oriented treatment of parameter estimation from both complete and censored samples; contains notations, simplified formats for estimates, graphical techniques, and numerous tables and charts allowing users to calculate estimates and analyze sample data quickly and easily. Furnishing numerous practical examples, this resource serves as a handy reference for statisticians, biometricians, medical researchers, operations research and quality control practitioners, reliability and design engineers, and all others involved in the analysis of sample data from skewed distributions, as well as a text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in statistics, quality control, operations research, mathematics and biometry courses.
Introduction
Basic Concepls for the Analysis of Reliability and Life Distribution Data
The Weibull, Exponential, and Extreme Value Distributions
The Lognormal Distribution
The Inverse Gaussian Distribution
The Gamma Distribution
Censored Sampling in the Exponential and Weibull Distributions
Censored and Truncated Samples from the Normal and the Lognormal Distributions
Censored Sampling in the Inverse Gaussian and Gamma Distributions
The Rayleigh Distribution
The Pareto Distribution
The Generalized Gamma Distribution