Bücher der Reihe Statistics for Industry and Technology

This is a volume consisting of selected papers that were presented at the 3rd St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation held at St. Petersburg, Russia, during June 28-July 3, 1998.

This book presents thirty-one extensive and carefully edited chapters providing an up-to-date survey of new models and methods for reliability analysis and applications in science, engineering, and technology.

Not even a serious study of the renewal processes is possible without using the strong tool of Markov processes. The semi-Markov processes generalize the renewal processes as well as the Markov jump processes and have numerous applications, especially in relia bility.

Discusses the statistical procedures to evaluate the assumptions of different distributions for the data observed, the validity of models such as linear models, generalized linear models, and additive models. This book is suitable for professionals and researchers interested in reliability, applied statistics, and statistical inference.

This volume consists of twenty-four papers selected by the editors from the sixty-one papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Mathemati cal Methods in Reliability held at the Politehnica University of Bucharest from 16 to 19 September 1997.

Sri Gopal Mohanty has made pioneering contributions to lattice path counting and its applications to probability and statistics. Combinatorics and applications of combinatorial methods in probability and statistics has become a very active and fertile area of research in the recent past.