When: 8:30 AM
Where: NCAR Foothills
Campus (please note this is at the Foothills Campus, not the Mesa
Lab)
Room 1022, Building FL2, 3450
Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO
Driving
directions to Foothills Campus
Registration Form This form is used for
the ASA Reliability course and for the ASA CO/WY Spring
Meeting on Friday, April 11.
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR RELIABILITY DATA
Presented by Luis A. Escobar, Louisiana State University
Reliability assurance processes in manufacturing industries require
data-driven information for making product-design decisions. Life tests,
accelerated life tests, and accelerated degradation tests are commonly
used to collect reliability data. Data from products in the field provide
another important source of useful reliability information. These
reliability studies typically yield data that are censored and/or
truncated, require the use of less familiar distributions like the
Weibull, the lognormal, and the gamma, and call for inferences that
involve extrapolation.
The purpose of this course is to make modern methods for analyzing
failure-time and degradation data available to a wide audience of
practitioners. The course will describe and illustrate the use of a mix of
proven traditional techniques, enhanced and brought up to date with modern
computer-based methodology. Topics to be covered include censored data,
nonparametric estimation, probability plotting, maximum likelihood
estimation, likelihood-based confidence intervals, acceleration models,
accelerated life testing, and accelerated degradation testing. The general
concepts and methods in this course also have applications in engineering,
medicine, life sciences, sociology, economics, and other sciences. Most of
the examples in the course will come from applications of product
reliability, but some biological examples will also be presented to
illustrate the breadth of application.
This course will focus primarily on applications, data, concepts, methods,
and interpretation. There will be little or no theory presented and
results of complicated computations will be illustrated graphically. As
such, the required technical background for the course is minimal. The
material in this course will be of interest and accessible to individuals
ranging from engineers having had only one or two courses of statistics in
their education/training through individuals with advanced degrees in
statistics.
LUIS A. ESCOBAR
is a Professor in the Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana
State University. His research and consulting interests include
statistical analysis of reliability data, accelerated testing, survival
analysis, linear and non-linear models. Professor Escobar is an Associate
Editor for Lifetime Data Analysis and past Associate Editor for
Technometrics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and
an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. Professor
Escobar was awarded the 1999 Jack Youden Prize and he has won two awards
for outstanding teaching at Louisiana State University. He is the
co-author of Statistical Methods for Reliability Data (Wiley 1998) and
several other book chapters. His publications have appeared in the
engineering and statistical literature.
This course is sponsored by the ASA Council of Chapters Traveling Course
Committee (COC). The COC provides low-cost, local courses for Chapters.
This is a chance for our members to hear an outstanding speaker, at our
Chapter, at a very low cost.
Driving
Directions to NCAR Foothills Campus
From Denver:
Hwy 36 West to Foothills Parkway (Hwy 157) North. Take a right at
Valmont (east), go to first light at 47th. Take a left (north again). Proceed
to Mitchell Lane (before railroad tracks), take a right. Proceed
straight into parking lot. Enter at main entrance in center
building.
From Longmont/Ft. Collins:
Take Diagonal Hwy into Boulder until it turns into
