Applied Life Data Analysis: 521 (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) - Softcover

Nelson, Wayne B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471644625 ISBN 13: 9780471644620

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2011

Synopsis

WILEY--INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley--Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "Many examples drawn from the author's experience of engineering applications are used to illustrate the theoretical results, which are presented in a cookbook fashion...it provides an excellent practical guide to the analysis of product--life data." --T.M.M. Farley Special Programme of Research in Human Reproduction World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland Review in Biometrics, September 1983 Now a classic, Applied Life Data Analysis has been widely used by thousands of engineers and industrial statisticians to obtain information from life data on consumer, industrial, and military products. Organized to serve practitioners, this book starts with basic models and simple informative probability plots of life data. Then it progresses through advanced analytical methods, including maximum likelihood fitting of advanced models to life data. All data analysis methods are illustrated with numerous clientsa applications from the authora s consulting experience.

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Review

"...a significant and comprehensive resource...available in an attractive and reasonably priced format." (Technometrics, August 2005)

"...an excellent addition to a six-sigma program...as well as a useful resource for the reliability engineer or student in statistics. The book is also applicable to many other fields..." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, July/August 2005)

"...extremely useful for courses on life data analysis, statistical quality control and product marketing." (Zentralblatt Math, Vol.1054, No.05, 2005)

About the Author

DR. WAYNE NELSON IS AWARDED THE SHEWHART MEDAL American Society for Quality awarded Dr. Wayne Nelson of Schenectady, New York the 2003 Shewhart Medal. The Medal honors his outstanding technical leadership, particularly for innovative developments and applications of theory and methods for analyzing quality, reliability, and accelerated test data, and for widely disseminating such developments through his books and many publications, talks, and courses. The Shewhart Medal for outstanding technical leadership is named after Dr. Walter A. Shewhart, who pioneered statistical methods for controlling and improving the quality of manufactured products. These methods contributed significantly to the United Statesa war effort in World War II. Subsequently taken to Japan by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, these methods revolutionized Japana s industries. Today these methods are part of widely used Six Sigma training on how to improve the quality of products and services. The American Society for Quality is the worlda s largest professional society dedicated to the improved quality of products and services. It serves its members and the public through a variety of educational activities, including conferences, training courses, journals, and books. Dr. Nelson is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Univiversity of Illinois. Formerly with GE Research & Development, he now privately consults and gives courses for companies, professional societies, and universities. For his technical contributions, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He recently spent four months in Argentina on a Fulbright Award, lecturing on analysis of product reliability data.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0471644625
• ISBN 13: 9780471644620
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 664