Tail orderings and the total time on test transform
The paper presents some connections between two tail orderings of distributions and the total time on test transform. The procedure for testing the pure-tail ordering is proposed.
Test for exponentiality against Weibull and gamma decreasing hazard rate alternatives
A sub-exponential Weibull random variable may be expressed as a quotient of a unit exponential to an independent strictly positive stable random variable. Based on this property, we propose a test for exponentiality which is consistent against Weibull and Gamma distributions with shape parameter less than unity. A comparison with other procedures is also included.
Testing a homogeneity of stochastic processes
The paper concentrates on modeling the data that can be described by a homogeneous or non-homogeneous Poisson process. The goal is to decide whether the intensity of the process is constant or not. In technical practice, e.g., it means to decide whether the reliability of the system remains the same or if it is improving or deteriorating. We assume two situations. First, when only the counts of events are known and, second, when the times between the events are available. Several statistical tests...
Testing Whether F is More IFR than G .
The effect of loss functions on empirical Bayes reliability analysis.
The Lorenz transform approach to the optimal repair-cost limit replacement policy with imperfect repair
In this paper, we consider a repair-cost limit replacement problem with imperfect repair and develop a graphical method to determine the optimal repair-cost limit which minimizes the expected cost per unit time in the steady-state, using the Lorenz transform of the underlying repair-cost distribution function. The method proposed can be applied to an estimation problem of the optimal repair-cost limit from empirical repair-cost data. Numerical examples are devoted to examine asymptotic properties...
The Lorenz Transform approach to the Optimal Repair-Cost limit remplacement Policy with Imperfect Repair
In this paper, we consider a repair-cost limit replacement problem with imperfect repair and develop a graphical method to determine the optimal repair-cost limit which minimizes the expected cost per unit time in the steady-state, using the Lorenz transform of the underlying repair-cost distribution function. The method proposed can be applied to an estimation problem of the optimal repair-cost limit from empirical repair-cost data. Numerical examples are devoted to examine asymptotic properties...
The optimal control chart procedure
The moving average (MA) chart, the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart and the cumulative sum (CUSUM) chart are the most popular schemes for detecting shifts in a relevant process parameter. Any control chart system of span is specified by a partition of the space into three disjoint parts. We call this partition as the control chart frame of span A shift in the process parameter is signalled at time by having the vector of the last sample characteristics fall out of the...
The regenerative process with rare event appears on the second phase.
Theoretical aspects of total time on test transform of weighted variables and applications
Although the total time on test (TTT) transform is not a newly discovered concept, it has many applications in various fields. On the other hand, weighted distributions are extensively developed by the statisticians to tackle the insufficiency of the standard statistical distributions in modeling the arising data from real-world problems in the contexts like medicine, ecology, and reliability engineering. This paper develops the TTT transform for the weighted random variables and investigates the...