Singpurwalla, Nozer D.

Reliability and Risk ; A Bayesian Perspective - 1. Ed. - Chichester, Hoboken, NJ, San Francisco, CA : John Wiley and Sons 2006 - xiv, 371 pp. - Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Balding, David J. (Ed.) Bloomfield, Peter (Ed.) Cressie, Noel A.C. (Ed.) et al. .

from the Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction and Overview; The Quantification of Uncertainty; Exchangeability and Indifference; Stochastic Models of Failure; Parametric Failure Data Analysis; Composite Reliability: Signatures; Survival in Dynamic Environments; Point Processes for Event Histories; Non-parametric Bayes Methods in Reliability; Survivability of Co-operative, Competing and Vague Systems; Reliability and Survival in Econometrics and Finance; Appendixes: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation; Fourier Series Models and the Power Spectrum; Network Survivability and Borel's Paradox; Bibliography; Index;

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