Mir Masoom Ali – författare

Statistical distributions are essential tools to model the characteristics of datasets, such as right or left skewness, bi-modality or multi-modality observed in different applied sciences, such as engineering, medicine, and finance. The well-known distributions like normal, Weibull, gamma and Lindley are extensively used because of their simple forms and identifiability properties. In the last decade, researchers have focused on the more complex and flexible distributions, referred to as Generalized or simply G families of probability distributions, to increase the modelling capability of these distributions by adding one or more shape parameters.

The main aim of this edited book is to present new contributions by researchers in the field of G families of probability distributions. The book will help researchers to:

Statistical distributions are essential tools to model the characteristics of datasets, such as right or left skewness, bi-modality or multi-modality observed in different applied sciences, such as engineering, medicine, and finance. The well-known distributions like normal, Weibull, gamma and Lindley are extensively used because of their simple forms and identifiability properties. In the last decade, researchers have focused on the more complex and flexible distributions, referred to as Generalized or simply G families of probability distributions, to increase the modelling capability of these distributions by adding one or more shape parameters.

The main aim of this edited book is to present new contributions by researchers in the field of G families of probability distributions. The book will help researchers to:

The book is a collection of different aspects of outliers and related topics written by experts. Topics covered include definition of outliers, their sources, consequences, identification, computational and robustness issues, handling of outliers in diversified areas of statistics such as univariate and multivariate data, linear and generalized linear models, time series, linear functional and structural models, circular data, spatial data, big data, high dimensional data, multi-view data. The book emphasizes the importance of outliers, and will appeal to workers in Data Mining; which is one of the fastest-growing business applications of statistics. The book makes outlier detection methods widely usable by practitioners. Examples are drawn from various fields.

The book is a collection of different aspects of outliers and related topics written by experts. Topics covered include definition of outliers, their sources, consequences, identification, computational and robustness issues, handling of outliers in diversified areas of statistics such as univariate and multivariate data, linear and generalized linear models, time series, linear functional and structural models, circular data, spatial data, big data, high dimensional data, multi-view data. The book emphasizes the importance of outliers, and will appeal to workers in Data Mining; which is one of the fastest-growing business applications of statistics. The book makes outlier detection methods widely usable by practitioners. Examples are drawn from various fields.

This book introduces a number of new sampling plans, such as time truncated life tests, skip sampling plans, resubmitted plans, mixed sampling plans, sampling plans based on the process capability index and plans for big data, which can be used for testing and inspecting products, from the raw-materials stage to the final product, in every industry using statistical process control techniques. It also presents the statistical theory, methodology and applications of acceptance sampling from truncated life tests.

Further, it discusses the latest reliability, quality and risk analysis methods based on acceptance sampling from truncated life, which engineering and statisticians require in order to make decisions, and which are also useful for researchers in the areas of quality control, lifetime analysis, censored data analysis, goodness-of-fit and statistical software applications.

In its nine chapters, the book addresses a wide range of testing/inspection sampling schemes for discrete and continuous data collected in various production processes. It includes a chapter on sampling plans for big data and offers several illustrative examples of the procedures presented. Requiring a basic knowledge of probability distributions, inference and estimation, and lifetime and quality analysis, it is a valuable resource for graduate and senior undergraduate engineering students, and practicing engineers, more specifically it is useful for quality engineers, reliability engineers, consultants, black belts, master black belts, students and researchers interested in applying reliability and risk and quality methods.