Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications (Asa-Siam Series on Statistics and Applied probability (Paperback)

by Wayne B. Nelson (Author)

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The book is clearly written, to the point, and is easy to read. -- Necip Doganaksoy, Journal of Quality Technology, January 2003

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'The book is clearly written, to the point, and is easy to read. It is well suited for self-study by practitioners with introductory level background in statistics. It can also be used as a supplementary text in a graduate or upper level undergraduate course on reliability. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in analysis of recurrence data.' Necip Doganaksoy, Journal of Quality Technology

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Product Details

• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: Society for Industrial Mathematics (January 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898715229
• ISBN-13: 978-0898715224
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,002,328 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars the first book published on recurrent events, March 28, 2008

By	Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" (Holland PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Wayne Nelson is a prolific author and an excellent teacher. He has written many well known texts on reliability, accelerated testing and data plotting. In the late 1990s he saw a need to analyze time to event data in a different way since some outcomes are recurrent. This book is a landmark text as it was the first to do serious theory and application if statistical methods to recurrent events. Nelson sees the mean cumulative function as a key description of these point processes and emphasizes it and good graphical techniques in the book. It includes many examples such as the births of children by a particular woman. The data in the text on births was generated at a statistics workshop I invited him to give in Los Angeles.

Wayne also published one of the earliest research articles on recurrent events. At that time Lawless and Nadeau published another article on this topic using a different approach. Lawless has very recently published his own text on recurrent events based on his approach.

I recommend these books (Nelson's and Lawless') as they are both rigorous and well written and cover an important topic that has not received much attention.