The problem of predicting the rth ordered observation Xr in a sample of n from an exponential distribution, based on the observed values of the first k ordered observations from the sample (k < r ≤ n) ...

I was alerted to Samuel's Arbesman's new paper, The Life-Spans of Empires, by the fact that he pointed to his research on his weblog. Interestingly I'm not the only one who was interested, as after I ...

In some life testing situations the minimum life can be nonzero. This paper develops O. C. curves for a hypothesis test concerning the minimum life where the underlying failure distribution is ...