Until recently, Markov models and analytical methods were fairly obscure mathematical techniques rarely applied outside of academic settings. The advent of functional safety standards, particularly ...

The medical device industry is among the wide cross section of industries that benefit from reliability engineering. Four methods presented here offer manufacturers concrete techniques to improve the ...

New deterministic and stochastic models for external pitting corrosion in underground pipelines can help improve integrity and reliability analyses. This concluding article applies these models to ...

Interests: Non-linear time series including parameric, non-parametric and semi-parametric approaches and applications to ecological and economic data. Dimension reduction, Model Selection, ...