Calls for „holistic‟ responses to halt the increasing imprisonment of women are continually reiterated. Solutions are sought which aim to be both „gender-responsive‟ and „community-based‟, however the absence of meaningful definitions of „community‟ and „holistic‟ means that superficial responses are often put in place in response to failures of the system. Taking as an example one attempt to i...

An accelerated degradation test (ADT) is regarded as an effective alternative to an accelerated life test in the sense that an ADT can provide more accurate information on product reliability, even when few or no failures may be expected before the end of a practical test period. In this paper, statistical methods for optimal designing ADT plans are developed assuming that the degradation chara...

In the literature, a lot of effort has been devoted to develop effective estimation and inference methods for the accelerated failure time (AFT) model for right censored data. In the talk, we will give a review on the recent development on the estimation and inference methods for the AFT model based on the work in [Jin et al., 2003] and [Jin et al., 2004].

The reliability data is getting used to monitor and improve the quality of products or services. Nowadays, most of products or services are the results of processes with dependent stages referred to as multi-stage process. In these processes, the quality characteristics are affected by the quality characteristics in the previous stages, called as cascade property. In some cases, it is not possi...