Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvi
Extended Cox and Accelerated Models in Reliability, with General Censoring and Truncation....Pages 3-21
Corrected Score Estimation in the Cox Regression Model with Misclassified Discrete Covariates....Pages 23-32
A Varying-Coefficient Hazards Regression Model for Multiple Cross-Effect....Pages 33-42
Closure Properties and Diagnostic Plots for the Frailty Distribution in Proportional Hazards Models....Pages 43-53
Multivariate Survival Data With Censoring....Pages 55-65
Virtual (Biological) Age Versus Chronological Age....Pages 69-81
A Competing Risks Model for Degradation and Traumatic Failure Times....Pages 83-93
Generalized Birth and Death Processes as Degradation Models....Pages 95-107
Nonperiodic Inspections to Guarantee a Prescribed Level of Reliability....Pages 109-125
Optimal Incomplete Maintenance for Weibull Failure Processes....Pages 127-135
Are Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Models Preferable to General-Order Statistics Models for Software Reliability Estimation?....Pages 137-152
Multistate System Reliability Assessment by Using the Markov Reward Model....Pages 153-168
Asymptotic Certainty Bands for Kernel Density Estimators Based upon a Bootstrap Resampling Scheme....Pages 171-186
Estimation of Rescaled Distribution....Pages 187-198
Nested Plans for Sequential Change Point Detection—The Parametric Case....Pages 199-211
Sampling in Survival Analysis and Estimation with Unknown Selection Bias and Censoring....Pages 213-224
Testing the Acceleration Function in Lifetime Models....Pages 225-239
Recent Achievements in Modified Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Testing....Pages 241-258
Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Pareto Distribution....Pages 259-274
Application of Inverse Problems in Epidemiology and Biodemography....Pages 275-291
A Sampling-Based Chi-Squared Test for Interval-Censored Data....Pages 295-306
Semiparametric Regression Models for Interval-Censored Survival Data, With and Without Frailty Effects....Pages 307-317
Exact Likelihood Inference for an Exponential Parameter Under Progressive Hybrid Censoring Schemes....Pages 319-330
Sequential Analysis of Quality-of-Life Measurements Using Mixed Rasch Models....Pages 333-347
Measuring Degradation of Quality-of-Life Related to Pollution in the SEQAP Study....Pages 349-367
A Bayesian Ponders “The Quality of Life”....Pages 369-381
On the Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Some Continuous Time Processes....Pages 385-403
Nonparametric Estimation of Integral Functionals for Semi-Markov Processes with Application in Reliability....Pages 405-418
Estimators for Partially Observed Markov Chains....Pages 419-433
On Solving Statistical Problems for the Stochastic Processes by the Sufficient Empirical Averaging Method....Pages 435-444
Adaptive Designs for Group Sequential Clinical Survival Experiments....Pages 447-459
Optimal Two-Treatment Repeated Measurement Designs for Two Periods....Pages 461-470
Discrepancy-Based Model Selection Criteria Using Cross-Validation....Pages 473-486
Focused Information Criteria for the Linear Hazard Regression Model....Pages 487-502
On Measures of Information and Divergence and Model Selection Criteria....Pages 503-518
Entropy and Divergence Measures for Mixed Variables....Pages 519-534
Clinical Trials and the Genomic Evolution: Some Statistical Perspectives....Pages 537-551
Back Matter....Pages 553-555