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Quantile-Based Reliability Analysis

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The hazard, mean residual, variance residual, and percentile residual quantiles functions, their mutual relationships and expressions for the quantile functions in terms of these functions, and some theoretical results relating to the Hankin and Lee (2006) lambda distribution are discussed.
Abstract
This book provides a fresh approach to reliability theory, an area that has gained increasing relevance in fields from statistics and engineering to demography and insurance. Its innovative use of quantile functions gives an analysis of lifetime data that is generally simpler, more robust, and more accurate than the traditional methods, and opens the door for further research in a wide variety of fields involving statistical analysis. In addition, the book can be used to good effect in the classroom as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Reliability and Statistics.

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Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability

Adriana Hornikova
- 01 May 2007 - 
TL;DR: This book aims to introduce simulation techniques for practitioners in the financial and risk management industry at an intermediate level by having extensive simulation examples using S–PLUS or Visual Basics.
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Quantile uncertainty and value-at-risk model risk

TL;DR: This article develops a methodology for quantifying model risk in quantile risk estimates, and provides a novel and elegant framework whereby quantile estimates are adjusted for model risk, relative to a benchmark which represents the state of knowledge of the authority that is responsible formodel risk.
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Quantile based entropy function

TL;DR: A quantile based Shannon entropy function is introduced and it is shown that the residual quantile entropy function determines the quantile density function uniquely through a simple relationship.
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Kullback–Leibler divergence: A quantile approach

TL;DR: A quantile based definition of the Kullback–Leibler divergence is introduced and the quantile versions of Kull back–Leiberler divergence for residual and past lifetime random variables are proposed.
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Total time on test transforms of order n and their implications in reliability analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the properties of total time on test transforms of order n and examine their applications in reliability analysis are studied. And the ageing properties of the baseline distribution is compared with those of transformed distributions, and a partial order based on ftth-order transforms and their implications are discussed.
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Bathtub and Related Failure Rate Characterizations

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Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability

Adriana Hornikova
- 01 May 2007 - 
TL;DR: This book aims to introduce simulation techniques for practitioners in the financial and risk management industry at an intermediate level by having extensive simulation examples using S–PLUS or Visual Basics.