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Article Excerpt
Weibull Models.
Prabhakar D. N. MURTHY, Min XIE, and Renyan JIANG. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0-471-36092-9. xvi + 383 pp. $99.95.
The authors state in the Preface that "The literature on Weibull models is vast, disjointed, and scattered across many different journals." To fill this gap, the authors have dedicated this book to the classification of the many of existing Weibull models, highlighting their applications in reliability theory and the integration of the related literature--a gargantuan task given the nearly 30 pages of bibliography listings and 15 chapters dedicated entirely to systematic model introductions.
The intended audience includes reliability engineers, applied statisticians with interest in reliability and survival analysis, and graduate or advanced undergraduate students in industrial engineering, operations research, and statistics. I...
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