Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems

An outgrowth of the International Conference on Statistical Models for Biomedical and Technical Systems, this book is comprised of contributions from renowned experts, demonstrating the significance of current research on the theory, methods, and applications of the field. The chapters, which deal primarily with the mathematical aspects of survival analysis and reliability, consist of a careful selection of invited and contributed papers, reflecting recent developments in the following areas: Epidemiology of cancer and environmental or nutrition risk factors Statistical models and methods in epidemiology Semi-Markov processes with applications Generalizations of the Cox regression model Probabilistic and statistical models and methods in reliability Semi-parametric inference in survival analysis Models and methods in survival analysis, longevity, aging, and degradation Models in the biosciences and medicine Accelerated life models Quality of life analysisThe book will be useful to a broad interdisciplinary readership in applied probability and statistics, industrial statistics, biomedicine, biostatistics, and applied reliability. Practitioners from industry and researchers in academia will gain insight and new ideas for exploring this fertile area of research.