Academic Press Hybrid Censoring Know-How: Designs and Implementations

Hybrid Censoring: Models, Methods and Applications for Engineering and Bio Health focuses on hybrid censoring, a specific yet important topic in censoring methodology that has numerous applications. Readers will find information on the significance of censored data in theoretical and applied contexts and descriptions of extensive data sets from life-testing experiments where these forms of data naturally occur. The existing literature on censoring methodology, life-testing procedures, or lifetime data analysis provides only hybrid censoring schemes, with little information about hybrid censoring methodologies, ideas, and statistical inferential methods. This book fills that gap by providing readers with valuable information on these topics. The statistical tools presented are applicable to data from medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics, and demography. Presents many numerical examples to adequately illustrate all the inferential methods discussed Provides open problems and possible directions for future work Reviews developments pertaining to Type-II HCS, and includes the most recent research and trends Explains why the hybrid censored sampling is important Provides detail in using HCS under different settings and the designs of HCS Includes R code on website for ease of use Review Life science and engineering scientists and researchers who need to analyze censored or truncated life time data and students, researchers and practitioners in different areas such as statistics, industrial engineering and clinical trials. Review This comprehensive review of hybrid censoring research highlights recent developments in the field and related practical applications About the Author Professor Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada & visiting Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Balakrishnan is a statistical distribution theorist and books powerhouse with 16 authored books, 4 authored handbooks, and 27 edited books under his name. He is current Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Statistics, and for the revised Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences published by Wiley. Debasis Kundu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, which he joined in 1990. He had previously worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, after completing his PhD in Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include statistical signal processing, non-linear regression, distribution theory, statistical computing, and reliability and survival analysis.