Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems

Cox Models, Analyses, and Extensions.- Extended Cox and Accelerated Models in Reliability, with General Censoring and Truncation.- Corrected Score Estimation in the Cox Regression Model with Misclassified Discrete Covariates.- A Varying-Coefficient Hazards Regression Model for Multiple Cross-Effect.- Closure Properties and Diagnostic Plots for the Frailty Distribution in Proportional Hazards Models.- Multivariate Survival Data With Censoring.- Reliability Theory-Degradation Models.- Virtual (Biological) Age Versus Chronological Age.- A Competing Risks Model for Degradation and Traumatic Failure Times.- Generalized Birth and Death Processes as Degradation Models.- Nonperiodic Inspections to Guarantee a Prescribed Level of Reliability.- Optimal Incomplete Maintenance for Weibull Failure Processes.- Are Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Models Preferable to General-Order Statistics Models for Software Reliability Estimation?.- Multistate System Reliability Assessment by Using the Markov Reward Model.- Inferential Analysis.- Asymptotic Certainty Bands for Kernel Density Estimators Based upon a Bootstrap Resampling Scheme.- Estimation of Rescaled Distribution.- Nested Plans for Sequential Change Point Detection-The Parametric Case.- Sampling in Survival Analysis and Estimation with Unknown Selection Bias and Censoring.- Testing the Acceleration Function in Lifetime Models.- Recent Achievements in Modified Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Testing.- Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Pareto Distribution.- Application of Inverse Problems in Epidemiology and Biodemography.- Analysis of Censored Data.- A Sampling-Based Chi-Squared Test for Interval-Censored Data.- Semiparametric Regression Models for Interval-Censored Survival Data, With and Without Frailty Effects.- Exact Likelihood Inference for an Exponential Parameter Under Progressive Hybrid Censoring Schemes.- Quality of Life.- Sequential Analysis of Quality-of-Life Measurements Using Mixed Rasch Models.- Measuring Degradation of

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"This edited volume, the outcome of the International Conference on Statistical Models for Biological and Technical Systems, showcases the current research interests in survival analysis and reliability. ... The book's style and format are fine. Its organization makes it useful for its target audience. ... The volume includes 37 tables and 55 figures, a nice feature." (Technometrics, Vol. 51 (2), May, 2009)