manufacturers need to evaluate the reliability of their products in order to increase the customer satisfaction. proper analysis of reliability also requires an effective study of the failure process of a product, especially its failure time. so, the failure process modeling (fpm) plays a key role in the reliability analysis of the system that has been less focused on. this paper introduces a f...

In this article, we use a measure of expected true evidence for determine the required sample size in type-II censored experiments for obtaining statistical evidence in favor of one hypothesis about the exponential mean against another.

The California Partners’ Study is an ongoing investigation of heterosexual HIVtransmission in partners of infected index cases (Padian, et al., 1987; Shiboski & Jewell, 1990). In addition to the HIV-status of the partner at the recruiting time one also observes the initial time of the partnership and a lower bound for the infection time of the index case. Following Jewell, Malani & Vittinghoff ...