Reliability and risk : a Bayesian perspective /

Reliability and risk : a Bayesian perspective /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Singpurwalla, Nozer D.
Imprint:	Chichester, West Sussex, England ; New York : J. Wiley & Sons, c2006.
Description:	xiv, 371 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Wiley series in probability and statistics
Subject:	Reliability (Engineering) -- Mathematical models. Risk management -- Mathematical models. Bayesian statistical decision theory. Bayesian statistical decision theory. Reliability (Engineering) -- Mathematical models. Risk management -- Mathematical models.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6120292

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ISBN:	9780470855027 (alk. paper) 0470855029 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-363) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction and overview
2. The quantification of uncertainty
3. Exchangeability and indifference
4. Stochastic models of failure
5. Parametric failure data analysis
6. Composite reliability : signatures
7. Survival in dynamic environments
8. Point processes for event histories
9. Non-parametric Bayes methods in reliability
10. Survivability of co-operative, competing and vague systems
11. Reliability and survival in econometrics and finance
App. A. Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
App. B. Fourier series models and the power spectrum
App. C. Network survivability and Borel's paradox.