{"55346":{"#nid":"55346","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Some recent developments in multi-state and degradation models for reliability inference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Some recent developments in multi-state and degradation models \nfor reliability inference\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Prof. Vijay Nair\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditional reliability analysis is based on time-to-failure \ndata. In this talk, we discuss two different directions that lead to \nmore informative reliability inference. The first is multi-state models. \nChallenges in statistical inference based on interval-censored data will \nbe described, and methods for doing likelihood-based inference in \nsemi-Markov models will be discussed. The second part of the talk will \nprovide an overview of degradation models, describe a class of \nnon-homogeneous Gaussian processes and some inference issues. This talk \nis based on joint work with current and former students Yang Yang and \nXiao Wang.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EBio: Vijay Nair is the Donald A. Darling Professor of Statistics and \nProfessor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of \nMichigan, Ann Arbor. He has been Chair of the Department of Statistics \nsine 1998. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in the Mathematical \nSciences and Operations Research Centers at Bell Laboratories for \nfifteen years.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis research interests include engineering statistics, information \ntechnology, quality and process improvement, industrial experiments, \nreliability and risk analysis, neuro-informatics, and statistical \nmethods in behavioral intervention research. He also has extensive \npractical experience in the automotive, semiconductor, and \ntelecommunications industries.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EVijay has a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics from the University of Malaya \n(Malaysia) and a Ph. D. in Statistics from the University of California, \nBerkeley. He has been editor of Technometrtics, International \nStatistical Review, coordinating editor of the Journal of Statistical \nPlanning and Inference, and has served on the editorial boards of many \nother leading statistics and quality journals. He is currently Vice \nPresident of the International Statistics Institute, President-elect of \nthe International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics, and \nChair of the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality. He \nhas chaired or co-chaired several panels of the National Academies and \nis a former chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of \nStatistical Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the \nAdvancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, the \nAmerican Society for Quality, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome recent developments in multi-state and degradation models \nfor reliability inference\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Some recent developments in multi-state and degradation models for reliability inference"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2010-04-13 10:14:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:51:18","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-04-15T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-04-15T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-04-15T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-04-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-04-15 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-04-15 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}