Consider a repairable system operating under a maintenance strategy that calls for complete preventive repair actions at pre-scheduled times and minimal repair actions whenever a failure occurs. Under minimal repair, the failures are assumed to follow a nonhomogeneous Poisson process with an...

In this paper we discuss the issue of improving score statistics for exponential censored data. We give a general formula to compute corrected score statistics in exponential regression models. The formula derived is simple enough to be used analytically in order to obtain closed-form...

Due to high interest rates and bank spreads, the number of credit unions in Brazil has increased over recent years. As financial institutions, these cooperatives need tools to signal impending financial problems. This paper focuses on one tool that can be used to evaluate credit union solvency:...

Traditionally, reliability assessment of devices has been based on life tests (LTs) or accelerated life tests (ALTs). However, these approaches are not practical for high-reliability devices which are not likely to fail in experiments of reasonable length. For these devices, LTs or ALTs will end...