Weibull Models (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

by D. N. Prabhakar Murthy, Min Xie, Renyan Jiang

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Get the first book to pull the vast literature on the Weibull into a proper perspective under one cover. Weibull Models

Covers model analysis, parameter estimation, model validation, and application
Classifies the different models and their properties
Intertwines theory and application
Focuses on model identification prior to model parameter estimation

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Comprehensive in theory, but infuriating!, 2007-03-02
This book does a service to those in reliability, survival analysis, materials, and other disciplines which use Weibull analysis by gathering together much of the information published in the over half-century since Waloddi Weibull's seminal work. Many of the variations on Weibull's original model are covered and classified. While there is some practical information on conducting Weibull analysis, the emphasis of the book is theoretical.

That's fine as far as it goes, but the book has many annoying (sometimes even infuriating) idiosyncracies. While I recognize that some probability distributions are most lucidly described by their distribution functions (including the two-parameter Weibull; doing so illuminates the power-law relationship between Weibull and exponential), while some are best described by their hazard functions (a design feature in reliability and survival analysis), and others still by their inverse distribution function, the other functions are still essential when they are conveniently expressed. One of the most frustrating aspects of this book is the refusal of the authors to provide more than one of these functions for most of the models considered. After a couple of months, I still haven't found the density function for the two-parameter Weibull model.

I also found the organization difficult to work with. Key material on basic Weibull and simple variations are covered in multiple sections, and is scattered throughout much of the book. This disorganization negates one of the important putative advantages of this book: that is supposed to organize much disjoint information which has accumulated over the years.

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