Introduction; Concepts and Applications of Stochastic Ageing; Bathtub Shaped Failure Rate Life Distributions; Mean Residual Life -- Concepts and Applications in Reliability Analysis; Weibull Related Distributions; An Introduction to Discrete Failure Time Models; Tests of Stochastic Ageing; Bivariate and Multivariate Ageing; Concepts and Measures of Dependence in Reliability; Reliability of Systems with Dependent Components; Failure Time Data
Summary
Ageing and dependence are two important characteristics in reliability and survival analysis, and they affect significantly the decision people make with regard to maintenance, repair/replacement, price setting, warranties, medical studies, and other areas. This book provides a review of this subject
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-408) and index
