Publications

Refereed Journal Publications

“Ordering Quantity Decisions Considering Uncertainty in Supply-Chain Logistics Operations”  (2011) with H. T. Kim, J.-C. Lu and Y. -C. Tsao, International Journal of Production Economics, to appear.

“Multi-cause degradation path model: A case study on rubidium lamp degradation” (2011) with S. Quan Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 27, No. 3.

“Comparing Hall of Fame Baseball Players Using Most Valuable Player Ranks” (2011), Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, to appear.

“Adjusted Empirical Likelihood Models with Estimating Equations for Accelerated Life Tests” with J.-C. Lu, N. Wang and D. Chen. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear.

“Estimating distribution functions under informative censoring from stochastic precedence” (2011) with Ulku Gurler. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, to appear.

 “Electoral voting and population distribution in the United States” (2010), Chance Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 1, 41-47.

“Extending the Skill Test for Disease Diagnosis” with S. C. Lin and J.-C. Lu (2009), Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 29, 798 - 813

 “Length Bias in the Measurements of Carbon Nanotubes” (2008), Technometrics, Vol. 50, No.4: 553 – 557.

“Load Sharing Models” (2008), with Jye-Chyi Lu, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, ed. R. Soyer, Wiley Press.

“Degradation Models” (2008), with Suk Joo Bae, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, ed. R. Soyer, Wiley Press.

“Statistical Models for Hot Electron Degradation in Nano-Scaled MOSFET Devices” (2007) with S. J. Bae, S.-J. Kim and W. Kuo. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Vol. 56, 392 – 400.

“Detection and Estimation of a Mixture in a Power Law Process for a Repairable System” (2007) with J.-C. Lu and Ni Wang, Journal of Quality Technology. Vol. 39, 140 – 150.

 “A Conversation with Harry Martz” (2007). Statistical Science. Vol. 21, 578 – 585.

“Degradation models and implied lifetime distributions” (2007) with S. J. Bae and W. Kuo. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Vol. 92, 601 – 608.

“Reliability Modeling in Spatially Distributed Logistics Systems” (2006) with J.-C. Lu and N. Wang, IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Vol. 55, No. 3, 525 – 534.

“A Logistic Regression/Markov Chain Model For NCAA Basketball” (2006) with J. Sokol, Naval Research Logistics. Vol. 53, 788 – 803.

“A change point degradation model for manufacturing based on incomplete burn-in” (2006) with S. J. Bae, IIE Transactions. Vol. 38, 489-498.

“Statistical Reliability with Applications” (2006) with Jye-Chyi Lu, Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, Chapter 2, 49 – 61, Editor: Huong Pham.  Springer-Verlag London

“Teaching statistics with sports examples” (2005) with J. Sokol, INFORMS Transactions on Education, Vol. 5, 75 – 86.

“Estimating load-sharing properties in a dynamic reliability system” (2005) with E. A. Peña, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, No. 469, 262 – 272.

“A nonlinear random coefficients model for degradation testing” (2004) with S. J. Bae, Technometrics, 46, No. 4, 460 – 469.

“Reliability estimation based on system data with an unknown load share rule” (2004) with H. Kim. Lifetime Data Analysis, 10, 83 – 94.

 “Error Bars in Intensity and Phase Measurements of Ultra-short Laser Pulses” (2004) with Z. Wang, E. Zeek, R. Trebino, Journal of the Optical Society of America, 20, No. 11, 2400 – 2408.

“Ranked set sampling based on binary water quality data with covariates” (2003), Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Science, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1 – 9.

“Beyond error bars: Understanding uncertainty in ultrashort-pulse frequency-resolved-optical-gating measurements in the presence of ambiguity” (2003) with Z. Wang, E. Zeek, R. Trebino,  Optics Express, Vol. 11, Issue 26, 3518 – 3524.

“Nonparametric estimation of a distribution subject to stochastic precedence” (2002) with M. A. Arcones and F. J. Samaniego. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, No. 457, 170 – 182.

“Estimating distributions with increasing failure rate in an imperfect repair model” (2002) with L. R. Whitaker and H. Singh, Lifetime Data Analysis, Vol. 8, No. 1, 53 – 69.

“Common cause failure prediction using data mapping” (2002) with J. G. Miller, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 76, No. 3, 273 – 278.

“Discrete predictive analysis in probabilistic safety assessment” (2002) with J. G. Miller, Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 105 – 116.

“Measuring the seat of the pants: Commercial airline pilot turbulence assessments in a full motion simulator” (2002) with E. J. Bass and R. H. Campbell, International Journal of Aviation Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 41 - 56.

“Ranked set sampling from location–scale families of distributions” (2001), with R. C. Tiwari, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, Vol. 30, No. 8, 1641 – 1659.

“On nonparametric estimation of the survival function with competing risks”, (2001) with H. Singh, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 28, No. 4, 715 – 724.

“The multivariate Polya distribution in combat modeling”, (2001) with D. Day, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 48, No. 1, 1 – 17.

“Nonparametric Bayes estimation of contamination levels using observations from the residual distribution”, (2000) with R. C. Tiwari and J. N. Zalkikar, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 95, No. 452, 1119  – 1126.

“The effect of active learning methods on student retention in engineering statistics,” (2000) The American Statistician, Vol. 54, No. 2, 136 – 140.

 “A quantile-based approach for efficiency measurement” (1999) with P. M. Griffin Journal of Managerial Economics, Vol. 20, 403 – 410.

 “Nonparametric estimation of the survival function based on censored data with additional observations from the residual distribution,” (1999) with R. C. Tiwari and H. Singh, Statistica Sinica, Vol. 9, No. 1, 229 – 246.

 “Fisher information in weighted distributions,” (1999) with S. Iyengar, H. Singh, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 27, No. 3.

 “Bayes estimation of a distribution function using ranked set samples,” (1999) with R. C. Tiwari, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Vol. 6, 11 – 22.

 “Discussion of ‘Estimating fatigue curves with the random fatigue-limit model’”, (1999) with E. P. Kvam, Technometrics, Vol. 41, No.4.

 “Combined analytical and empirical learning framework for branch and bound algorithms: the knapsack problem”, (1999) with M. J. Realff and W. E. Taylor, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 3, 287– 300.

 “The binomial failure rate mixture model for common cause failure data from U.S. nuclear power plants,” (1998) Applied Statistics: Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, Series C, Vol. 47, Part 1, 49 –  61.

 “Estimating reliability of components with increasing failure using series system data,” (1998) with H. Singh, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 45, 115-123.

“A parametric mixture model for common cause failure data,” (1998) IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 47, No. 1, 30 – 34.

 “Multivariate life testing in variably scaled environments,” (1997) with F. J. Samaniego, Lifetime Data Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 4, 337 –  352.

“Using exam scores to estimate the prevalence of classroom cheating” (1996), The American Statistician, Vol. 50, No. 3., 238 –  242.

“Estimation techniques based on common cause failure data with different system sizes” (1996),Technometrics, Vol. 38, No.4, 382 – 388.

“Empirical Bayes estimation of the reliability of nuclear power plant emergency diesel generators” (1996) with H. Martz and L. Abramson. Technometrics, Vol. 38, No.1, 11 – 24.

“Detecting trends and patterns in reliability data over time using exponentially weighted moving averages” (1996) with H. F. Martz. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 51, 202 – 207.

“Uncertainty in binomial failures and demands: an application to reliability” (1996) with H. F. Martz and C. L. Atwood. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, 43 – 57.

“Maximum likelihood estimation and the multivariate Bernoulli distribution: an application to reliability” (1996).  Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, 187 - 194.  Edited by Jewell, Kimber, Lee & Whitmore. Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands.

“Bayesian inference in a discrete model using confounded common cause data” (1995) with H. F. Martz. Reliability Engineering and System Safety , Vol. 48, No. 1, 19-25

“Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation based on ranked set samples” (1994), with  F. J. Samaniego. Journal of the American Statistical Association,  Vol. 89, No. 426, 526– 537.

“On the inadmissibility of standard estimators based on ranked set sampling” (1993), with F. J. Samaniego, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 36, 39– 55.

“On maximum likelihood estimation based on ranked set samples, with applications to reliability” (1993), with F. J. Samaniego.  Advances in Reliability: a selection of papers from the International Research Conference on Reliability, Missouri, Columbia, 19-22 June, 1991, 215 – 229.  Edited by A. P. Basu.  Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.

 “On estimating distribution functions using nomination samples” (1993), with F. J. Samaniego.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 88, No. 424, 1317– 1322.

“Life testing in variably scaled environments” (1993) with F. J. Samaniego. Technometrics, 35, 306– 314.