Two important wood properties are the modulus of elasticity (MOE) and the modulus of rupture (MOR). In the past, the statistical distribution of the MOE has often been modeled as Gaussian, and that of the MOR as lognormal or as a twoor three-parameter Weibull distribution. It is well known that MOE and MOR are positively correlated. To model the simultaneous behavior of MOE and MOR for the purp...

In recent years analysis of the mixture models under Bayesian framework has received considerable attention. However, the Bayesian estimation of the mixture models under doubly censored samples has not yet been reported. This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation procedure for analyzing lifetime data under doubly censored sampling when the failure times belong to a two-component mixture of the W...

Weakest-link scaling is used in the reliability analysis of complex systems. It is characterized by the extensivity of the hazard function instead of the entropy. The Weibull distribution is the archetypical example of weakest-link scaling, and it describes variables such as the fracture strength of brittle materials, maximal annual rainfall, wind speed and earthquake return times. We investiga...

Failure detectors are used to build high availability distributed systems as the fundamental component. To meet the requirement of a complicated large-scale distributed system, accrual failure detectors that can adapt to multiple applications have been studied extensively. However, several implementations of accrual failure detectors do not adapt well to the cloud service environment. To solve ...

We study the gamma-exponentiated Weibull distribution which includes as special cases several models such as the exponential, Weibull, exponentiatedWeibull, gamma-exponentiated exponential and exponentiated exponential distributions. This new distribution might be useful for failure time data analysis. We demonstrate that its density function is an infinite linear combination of Weibull densiti...