{"62541":{"#nid":"62541","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Some recent developments in multi-state and degradation models for reliability inference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETITLE:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Some recent developments in multi-state and degradation models for \nreliability \ninference\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPEAKER:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Vijay Nair\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditional reliability analysis is based on time-to-failure data. In this \ntalk, we discuss two different directions that lead to more informative \nreliability inference. The first is multi-state models. Challenges in \nstatistical inference based on interval-censored data will be described, and \nmethods for doing likelihood-based inference in semi-Markov models will be \ndiscussed. The second part of the talk will provide an overview of degradation \nmodels, describe a class of non-homogeneous Gaussian processes and some \ninference issues. This talk is based on joint work with Yang Yang, Yves Atchade \nand Xiao Wang.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*Bio*\u003C\/strong\u003E: 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 sine \n1998. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in the Mathematical Sciences and \nOperations Research Centers at Bell Laboratories for fifteen years.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis research interests include engineering statistics, information technology, \nquality and process improvement, industrial experiments, reliability and risk \nanalysis, neuro-informatics, and statistical methods in behavioral intervention \nresearch. He also has extensive practical experience in the automotive, \nsemiconductor, and telecommunications industries.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\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 Statistical \nReview, coordinating editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning and \nInference, and has served on the editorial boards of many other leading \nstatistics and quality journals. He is currently Vice President of the \nInternational Statistics Institute, President-elect of the International \nSociety for Business and Industrial Statistics, and Chair of the Statistics \nDivision of the American Society for Quality. He has chaired or co-chaired \nseveral panels of the National Academies and is a former chair of the Board of \nTrustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He is a Fellow of \nthe American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American \nStatistical Association, the American Society for Quality, and the Institute of \nMathematical Statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Some recent developments in multi-state and degradation models for reliability inference"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2010-11-04 13:25:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:45:44","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-11-18T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2010-11-18T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-11-18T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-11-18 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-11-18 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-11-18 16:00:00","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":""}}}