Publications in Refereed Journals

PUBLICATIONS:

 

  1. “Some Acceptance Sampling Plans Based on the Theory of Runs,”

(with R.R.Prairie and J.K. Brooknouse),” Technometrics, 4, No. 2, May

1962, pp. 177-185.

  1. “Factorial Experiments in Environmental Testing with Factors Applied Sequentially,” (with R.R. Prairie), Proceedings of the Institute of Environmental Sciences 1963

Annual Technical Meeting, April1963, pp. 9-15.

  1. “Variables Sampling Plans Based on Non-Normal Populations,” (with I.W. Burr), Industrial Quality Control, XX, No. 1, July 1963, pp. 18-26.
  2. “Two Approaches to AOQ,” (with C.R. Clark), Industrial Quality Control,

XX, No.7, January 1964, pp. 23-33.

  1. “On the Choice of Acceptance Numbers in Double Sampling Plans by Attributes,” Proceedings of the 1964 Western Region Quality Control Conference, May 1964, pp. 189-196.
  2. “2P Factorial Experiments with the Factors Applied Sequentially,” (with

R.R.Prairie), Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on the Design of

Experiments – Army Research Development and Testing, ARO-D Report

64-2, December 1964, pp. 395-420.

  1. “Factorial Experiments with the Factors Applied Sequentially,” (with R.R.

Prairie), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 59, December   1964     pp. 1205-1216.

  1. “A Consideration of the Bayesian Approach in Reliability Evaluation,”

(with A.M.Breipohl and R.R. Prairie), I.E.E.E. Transactions on

Reliability, R-14, October 1965, pp. 101-113.

  1. “An Analysis of Hot-Pressing Parameters for Lead Zirconate-Lead Titanate Ceramics Containing Two Atom Percent Bismuth,” (with G.H. Haertling), Ceramic Bulletin, 45, No. 12, December 1966, pp. 1084-1089.
  2. “The Relationship Between Neyman and Bayes Confidence Interval for

the Hypergeometric Parameter,” (with G.P. Steck), Technometrics, 10,

No.1, February 1968, pp. 198-203.

  1. “Some Comparisons of the Bayesian and Classical Confidence Intervals in the Exponential Case,” (with J.J. Deely), Annals of Assurance Sciences (1968), Transactions of the 7th Conference on Reliability and Maintainability, pp. 366-371.
  2. “Fractional Replications of Factorial Experiments with the Factors

Applied Sequentially,” (with R.R. Prairie), Journal of the American

Statistical Association, 63, No. 322, June 1968, pp. 644-652.

  1. “Shorter Confidence Limits Using Prior Observations,” (with J.J. Deely), Journal oj the American Statistical Association, 64, No. 325, March 1969, pp. 378-386.
  2. “Partial Prior Information and Shorter Confidence Intervals,” (with J.J. Deely), Annals of Assurance Sciences (1969), Transactions of the 8th Reliability and Maintainability Conference, July 1969, pp. 488-496.
  3. “Tables of Sample Sizes in the Analysis of Variance,” (with T.L.

Bratcher and Aiden Moran), Journal of Quality Technology, 2, No.3, July

1970, pp. 156-164.

  1. “The Role of the Prior Distribution in Bayesian Decision Making for the

Binomial Situation,” (with R.R. Prairie), Annals of Assurance Sciences,

Transactions of the 9th Reliability and Maintainability Conferences, July

1970, pp. 2-12. (Runner-upfor Best Paper of the Conference.)

  1. “G2-Minimax Estimators in the Exponential Family,” (with Jackson,

O’Donovan and Deely), Biometrika, 57, No. 2 (1970) pp. 439-443

  1. “Continuous Sampling Plans for Variables Based on Cumulative Sums,”

(with R.R.Prairie), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C.

(Applied Statistics), 19, No. 3 (1970), pp. 222-230.

  1. “On the Usefulness of the Maximum Entropy Principle in the Bayesian Estimation of Reliability,” (with M.S. Tierney and J.J. Deely), I.E.E.E. Transactions on Reliability, R-19, No. 3, August 1970, pp. 110-115.
  2. “Tests for the Suitability of Prior Distributions,” (with C.R. Crain and R.R. Prairie), Annals of Assurance Sciences, Transactions of the 1Oth Reliability and Maintainability Conference, July 1971, pp. 39-48.
  3. “Conditions Related to the Assumption of Independence,” (with S. Bell), Annals of Assurance Sciences, Proceedings 1972 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January 1972, pp. 541-547.
  4. “Estimators for Severity Factors in a Multiplicative Poisson Model,” (with S. Zacks), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 67, No. 337, March 1972, pp. 192-195.
  5. “Estimation of Acceleration and Ageing Functions,” (with G.P. Steck),

Proceedings1972 NATO Conference Reliability Testing and Reliability

Evaluation, VIII-B, 15 pages.

  1. “Graphs, Tables, and Discussion to Aid in the Design and Evaluation of an Acceptance Sampling Procedure Based on Cumulative Sums,” (with R.R. Prairie), Quality Technology, 5, No. 2, April 1973, pp. 58-66.
  2. “Likelihood of Strong-Motion Earthquakes,” (with 1.-Hshin Chou and J.T.P. Yao), Abstract published in the Proceedings of the Seismological Society of America (1973).
  3. “Estimation of Parameters in Acceleration Models,” (with G.P. Steck

and R.E.Williams), Annals of Assurance Sciences: Proceedings of

the 1974 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January

1974, pp. 428-431.

  1. “Asymptotic Optimality of the Empirical Bayes Procedure,” (with J.J.

Deely), The Annals of Statistics, 4, No. 3 (1976), pp. 576-580.

  1. “A General Continuous Sampling Plan for Controlling the AOQ,” (with C.Y. Tai), Proceedings of the International Conference on Quality Control, Tokyo, Japan {1978), D3-29-33.
  2. “A Non-Parametric Approach to Accelerated Life Testing,” (with Moshe Shaked and Clifford A. Ball), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74, No. 367, September 1979, pp. 694-699.
  3. “Non-Parametric Estimation of an Acceleration Parameter,”   (with

Pramod K. Pathak and Raymond E. Williams), Communication in

Statistics, Theoretical Mathematics, 814(1979), pp. 367-383.

  1. “An Optimality of Beatties Continuous Sampling Plan,” (with C.Y. Tai), Journal of the National Chiao Tung University, June 1979, pp. 61-69.
  2. “A General Continuous Sampling Plan for Controlling the AOQ,” (with C.Y. Tai), Quality Technology, 12, No.4, October 1980, pp. 191-95.
  1. “A Bayesian Approach to Accelerated Life Testing,” (with P.K. Pathak),

Proc. Ann. Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, I.E.E.E., No.

81CH1618-8 (1981), pp. 371-374.

  1. “A More Powerful Test for Dispersion Using Distance Measurements,”

(with Roger B. Johnson), Ecology, 66(5) (1985), pp. 1669-1675.

  1. “Empirical Bayesian Estimation of Mean Life From an Accelerated Life Test,” (with P.K. Pathak, A. Singh, and A.K. Singh), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 16(1987), pp. 353-363.
  2. “r-Minimax: Still Conservative When Viewed From Hierarchical Bayes,”

(with J.J.Deely), Proceedings of 1987 Decision Sciences Institute, 2,

pp 1099-1102.

  1. “Choosing a Quality Supplier–A Bayesian Approach”, (with J.J. Deely), Bayesian Statistics-3, Ed. J.M. Bernardo, M.H. DeGroot, D.V. Lindley, A.F.M. Smith, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1988), pp. 585-592.
  2. “A Non-Parametric Linear Empirical Bayes Decision Function for Mean

Life,” (with A. Singh and A.K. Singh), Proceedings of 1988 Decision

Sciences Institute, 1, pp. 135-137.

  1. “Sample Size Selection for Reliability Allocation Using Supplementary

Information”, (with R.R. Prairie), Advances in Reliability and Quality

Control: A Publication of the International Association of Science and

Technology for Development- lASTED, Ed. M.H. Hamza, ACTA Press,

1989, pp. 19-22.

  1.  “An Iterative Bayes Procedure for Reliability Assessment”, (with R.R. Prairie),

Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium Proceedings, January

1990, pp. 10-14.

  1. “A Non-Parametric Bayes Empirical Bayes Procedure for Estimating the

Percent Non-Conforming in Accepted Lots,” (with H.F. Martz), Journal of

Quality Technology, Vol. 22, No.2, April1990, pp. 95-104.

  1. “A Non-Symmetric Control Chart for Means, (with S. Yourstone). 1990

Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1990, pp. 154-

.   156

  1. “Statistical Modeling for Particle Impact Noise Detection Testing”, (with R.R.

Prairie).   PROCEEDINGS Annual Reliability and Maintainability

Symposium , January 1991, pp. 536-540.

  1. 44. “Average Run Length Comparisons: Symmetric Versus Non-Symmetric

Control Charts”, (with S. Yourstone). Fifth National Symposium, Statistics in

Design and Process Control: Keeping Pace With Automated Manufacturing

Arizona State University , 1991.

45   “Bayesian Estimation of Hazard and Acceleration in Accelerated Testing”,

(with P.K. Pathak and A.K. Singh). IEEE Transactions on Reliability,

December 1991, pp. 615-621.

46   “Estimation of the Probability of Failure of the Solid Rocket Boosters on

the Space Shuttle”, (with H.F. Martz). American Statistician, Vol. 46, No. 1

Feb. 1992, pp. 42-47.

  1. “Bayesian Estimation of the Linear Hazard Rate Model”, (with A.

Singh and A.Panday). IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 42, No. 4,

December 1991 pp. 636-640.

  1. “Non-normslity and the Design of Control Charts for Averages”, ( with S

. Yourstone) Decision Sciences, The Journal of the Decision Sciences

Institute, Vol. 23, No. 5, October 1992, pp. 1099-1113.

  1. “The Risk of Catastrophic Failure of the Solid Rocket Booster on the Space Shuttle” (with H. F. Martz), American Statistician (46), 1992, pp. 42-47
  2. “Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Reliability Qualification Testing in the

Poisson Distribution”. (with R. Fisher and H. F. Martz)   Advances in

Reliability, 1993, Elsevier Science Publishers, pp. 123-140.

  1. “Invigilation Plans for Monitoring the Reliability of Continuously Produced

Product”, (with R. R. Prairie), Proceedings of the IASTED International

Conference, October 1993, pp. 18-21.

  1. “A Bayesian Statistical Test for Validating Stochastic S/V Models”, (with J.

Evanoff), Proceedings US Army Operations Research Symposium, October

1993, pp. G43-G53.

  1. “Model Benchmarking with a Statistical Grading Scale”, (R. Weitz, T. Calton

and R. R. Prairie), proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability

Symposium, 1994, pp. 188-194.

  1. “SPC-Pro: an Expert System Approach for Variables Control Charts”, (with S.

Kassicieh and S. Yourstone), Quality Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1994-1995,

  1. “Unity Values for Bayes Reliability Demonstration Testing”, (with R. Parker, H. Martz and R. R. Prairie), Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability,

CRC Press, 1995, pp. 173-194.

56, “Partial Prior Information: Classified by Effect on the Width of Interval

Estimators”, (with Y. Wang and P. Pathak), International Conference on

Statistical Methods and Statistical Computing for Quality and Productivity

Improvement Proceedings, August 1995, Korea, pp. 525-529.

  1. “Partial Prior Information and Hierarchical Bayes: Γ-Minimax, Η-Minimax

and Γ-Η-Minimax”, (with Y. Wang and P. Pathak), Parisankhyan

Samikkha, Vol. 2 No. 2, July 1995, pp. 67-89.

  1. “Adaptive Hierarchical Bayesian Kalman Filtering with Applications to

Quality Control”, (with B. Hembree), Statistical Applications in Process

Control, Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1995, pp. 51-82.

  1. “A Bayes Ranking if Survival Distributions using Accelerated or

Correlated Data”, (with J. Deely), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 45,

No. 3, September 1996, pp. 499-504.

  1. “A Monitoring Plan for Detecting Product Degradation from the Reliability

Requirement”, (with R. R. Prairie), Statistical Applications in Process Control,

Marcel Dekker Inc., 1996, pp. 345-362.

  1. “Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Burr XII Parameters with Censored

and Uncensored Data”, (with F. K.Characteri Wang and B. Keats),

Microelectron Reliability, Elsevier Science Vol. 36, No. 3, 1996, pp. 359-362.

  1. “Adaptive Hierarchical Bayesian Kalman Filtering with Application to Quality   Control” (with G. Barry Hembree) Statistical Applications in Process Control, Edited by J. Bert Keats and Douglas Montgomery, Marcel Dekker Inc. 1996
  2. “Characterization of Non-monotone Hazards”, (with j. B. Keats and R. R.

Prairie), Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability

Symposium, 1998, pp. 176-181.

  1. “The Burr XII Distribution in Reliability Analysis”, (with J. B. Keats and F. k.

Wang), Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 30, No. 4, October 1998, pp.386-394

  1. “Log-Odds Rate and Monotone Log-Odds Rate Distributions”, (with Y. Wang

and P. K. Pathak), Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 30, No. 4, October

1998, pp. 376-385.

  1. “Relationship Between Partial Prior Information and the Size of Equivalent

Data Sets” (with Yao Wang and Pramod K. Pathak), Parisankhyan Samilckka,

an International Journal of Statistics, (1999), Vol. 6, No. 1&2, pp. 66-76.

67 “Least Squares Type Estimators for the General Three Parameter Pareto

Distribution”, (with A. M. Hossain), Journal of Statistical Research, Vol. 33.

No. 2,1999, cpp. 35-49.

  1. “Comparison of Parameter Estimation Methods for a Pareto Distribution of

the First Kind” (with Anwar Hossain), Communications in Statistics, Theory

and Methods (2000), Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 859-878.

  1. “Properties of Log Odds Rate Distributions” (with Yao Wang), Journal of

Actuarial Science (on web only), (2001), pp. 1-16.

  1. “Confidence Intervals and Sample Size Determination for Cpm” (with L. S.    Zimmer and N. F. Hubele), Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 17, (2001), pp. 51-68.
  1. “A Comparison of Three Estimators of the Weibull Parameters” (with K. B.

Skinner and J. B. Keats), Quality and Reliability International, Vol. 17, (2001),   pp. 249-256

  1. “Comparison of Estimation Methods for Weibull Parameters: Complete and

Censored Samples” (with Anwar Hossain), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, (2003), Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 145-153.

  1. “Monotone Log-Odds Rate Distributions in Reliability Analysis” (with Yao Wang, Anwar Hossain), Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, (2003), Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 2227-2244.
  2. “Tables of Bounds for Distributions with Monotone Log-Odds Rate” (with Yao Wang and Anwar Hossain), Communications in Statistics, Simulation and Computation, (2005), Vol. 34, pp. 1-20.
  1. “Useful Properties of the Three-Parameter Burr XII Distribution” (with Yao

Wang and Anwar Hossain), Journal of Applied Statistical Science, Vol15,

(2007), No. 1, pp. 11-20.