Statistical Methods for Reliability Data

WILLIAM Q. MEEKER, PhD, is Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. Among his many awards and honors are the Youdan Prize and two Wilcoxon Prizes as well as two awards for outstanding teaching at Iowa State. He is coauthor of Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners (Wiley) and of numerous book chapters and publications in the engineering and statistical literature. A former editor of Technometrics and coeditor of Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, he is currently Associate Editor for International Statistical Review.

LUIS A. ESCOBAR, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Experimental Statistics at Louisiana State University. His research and consulting interests include statistical analysis of reliability data, accelerated testing, survival analysis, and nonlinear models. An Associate Editor for Technometrics and the IIE Transactions of Quality and Reliability Engineering, Professor Escobar is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected member of the International Statistics Institute. He is the author of several book chapters, and his publications have appeared in the engineering and statistical literature.