The New Weibull Handbook - 5th Edition
The New Weibull Handbook – 5th Edition
Reliability & Statistical Analysis for Predicting Life, Safety, Survivability, Risk, Cost and Warranty Claims
by Robert B. Abernethy, Ph.D.
The new Fifth Edition has been revised and updated to include the latest technology developed by the author and his associates - Wes Fulton, Paul Barringer and others — for improved life data and warranty analysis.
New material includes:
- More accurate Goodness of Fit measures using the Coefficient of Determination, the likelihood ratio and Anderson-Darling methods are presented. A new appendix compares their “power,” the probability of making the selecting the correct distribution.
- Grouped or interval data methods including the Inspection Option, the Probit Method and the Interval MLE, are compared with simulation to determine best practices.
- A section on Life Cycle Costs, by Paul Barringer, using Weibull analysis including simulation.
- A section on Warranty Analysis by Joe Wauben of Honda and Wes Fulton, using warranty claims matrices.
- Weibull Libraries with automatic filing contributed by Randy Pirtle of Honeywell.
- Revised Best Practices
Rewritten sections include:
- Improved Crow-AMSAA analysis based on accuracy comparisons between regression and MLE and also, critical correlation coefficients for measuring the goodness of fit of the plotted data. The analysis may be done on failure events, warranty claims, or cost using the latest IEC standards.
- Reduced Bias Estimation for small sample sizes for “Now Risk” producing better tests for batch problems.
- Small samples reduced bias adjustments (RBA) for maximum likelihood estimates for the Weibull, normal and log normal distributions providing significant improvements in accuracy. Maximum likelihood estimates can now be made for small samples as accurately as median rank regression.
- Dr. Wayne Nelson’s new methodology: recurrent events analysis.
- There are many methods and types of analysis described in The New Weibull Handbook. How can the novice analyst decide which is the most appropriate procedure for his problem? Best practices are indicated throughout the text.
- The logic diagram developed by Bob Rock of PACCAR, has been improved to provide step-by-step guidance to select the best practice methods for all types of data sets (Also available in Spanish).
- New case studies.
Published November 2006. 350 pages, flexible comb binding, figures, tables, references, 8 ½ x 11”.
ISBN 0-96530-623-2. Retail price: $98.00
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