Chin Diew Lai

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Optimum Burn-in Time for a Bathtub Shaped Failure Distribution
    Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2007
  2. Modeling human mortality using mixtures of bathtub shaped failure distributions
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 245, no. 3, pp. 528–538, 2007
  3. A flexible Weibull extension
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 719–726, 2007
  4. Reply to S. Nadarajah concerning “A flexible Weibull extension”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety (2007; 92: 719–26)
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 1485–1485, 2007
  5. Ordering Properties of Systems with Two Dependent Components
    Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 645–655, 2007
  6. Reliability of Modules with Load-Sharing Components
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 2007, Article ID 43565, 18 pages, 2007
  7. Weibull Model Allowing Nearly Instantaneous Failures
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 2007, Article ID 90842, 11 pages, 2007
  8. A control chart procedure for monitoring university student grading
    International Journal of Services Technology and Management, vol. 8, no. 4/5, p. 344, 2007
  9. Effectiveness of high interest rate policy on exchange rates: A reexamination of the Asian financial crisis
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 2006, Article ID 35752, 9 pages, 2006
  10. Comparison of two common estimators of the ratio of the means of independent normal variables in agricultural research
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 2006, Article ID 78375, 14 pages, 2006
  11. Useful Periods for Lifetime Distributions With Bathtub Shaped HazardRate Functions
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 245–251, 2006
  12. Composite EWMA Control Charts
    Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1133–1158, 2005
  13. On Statistical Design of the S2 Control Chart
    Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 229–244, 2005
  14. Preface
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 2005, no. 2, pp. 59–60, 2005
  15. ESTIMATION OF A PROPORTION USING SEVERAL INDEPENDENT SAMPLES OF BINOMIAL MIXTURES
    Australian New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 441–448, 2005
  16. Reducing quadratic programming problem to regression problem: Stepwise algorithm
    European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 164, no. 1, pp. 79–88, 2005
  17. The Mean of the Inverse of a Punctured Normal Distribution and Its Application
    Biometrical Journal, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 420–429, 2004
  18. Optimal number of hosts in a distributed system based on cost criteria
    International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 343–353, 2004
  19. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 113, 2004
  20. On the relationship between regression analysis and mathematical programming
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 131–140, 2004
  21. On the Relationship Between Regression Analysis and Mathematical Programming
    Journal of Applied Mathematics Decision Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 131–140, 2004
  22. A modified Weibull distribution
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 33–37, 2003
  23. A two-stage decision procedure for monitoring processes with low fraction nonconforming
    European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 150, no. 2, pp. 420–436, 2003
  24. Continuous sampling plans for Markov-dependent production processes under limited inspection capacity
    Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 38, no. 11-13, pp. 1137–1145, 2003
  25. Relative ageing for two parallel systems and related problems
    Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 38, no. 11-13, pp. 1339–1345, 2003
  26. On the Effect of Redundancy for Systems with Dependent Components
    IIE Transactions, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 1103–1110, 2003
  27. Poisson DEWMA Control Chart
    Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 1265–1283, 2003
  28. A model for availability analysis of distributed software/hardware systems
    Information and Software Technology, vol. 44, no. 2, p. 0, 2002
  29. DISTRIBUTION OF RUNS IN A TWO-STAGE PROCESS MONITORING MODEL
    Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 547–557, 2001
  30. A probabilistic assessment of eruption recurrence on Taveuni volcano, Fiji
    Bulletin of Volcanology, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 274–288, 2001
  31. A new family of positive quadrant dependent bivariate distributions
    Statistics & Probability Letters, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 359–364, 2000
  32. A bivariate gamma mixture distribution
    Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 2775–2790, 2000
  33. Study of a Markov model for a high-quality dependent process
    Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 461–473, 2000
  34. Design of multiple run sampling plan
    Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1–11, 1999
  35. Robustness of the sample correlation - the bivariate lognormal case
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 7–19, 1999
  36. On reliability bounds via conditional inequalities
    Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 104–114, 1998
  37. Fisher information for downton's bivariate exponential distribution
    Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 123–127, 1998
  38. A generalized negative binomial and applications
    Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 2515–2533, 1998
  39. STATISTICAL DESIGN OF CONTROL SCHEMES FOR LOW FRACTION NONCONFORMING
    Quality Engineering, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 15–19, 1998
  40. Effects of correlation on fraction non-conforming statistical process control procedures
    Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 535–543, 1998
  41. Control chart for multivariate attribute processes
    International Journal of Production Research, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 3477–3489, 1998
  42. Fitting S B Distributions to Fruit Sizes with Implications for Prediction Methods
    Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, vol. 2, no. 3, p. 333, 1997
  43. The recurrent event process of a success preceded by a failure and its application
    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 101–117, 1997
  44. Statistical analysis of New Zealand volcanic occurrence data
    Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 74, no. 1-2, pp. 101–110, 1996
  45. Reliability analysis using an additive Weibull model with bathtub-shaped failure rate function
    Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 87–93, 1996
  46. Exploiting symmetry in the reliability analysis of coherent systems
    Naval Research Logistics, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1025–1034, 1996
  47. Exploiting symmetry in the reliability analysis of coherent systems
    Naval Research Logistics, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1025–1034, 1996
  48. Construction of bivariate distributions by a generalised trivariate reduction technique
    Statistics & Probability Letters, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 265–270, 1995
  49. Tests of univariate and bivariate stochastic ageing
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 233–241, 1994
  50. Bounds on reliability of a k-out-of-n system
    Microelectronics and Reliability, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 697–703, 1993
  51. A note on “A finite range distribution of failure times”
    Microelectronics and Reliability, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 183–189, 1986
  52. Probability integrals of a bivariate gamma distribution
    Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 205–213, 1984
  53. A characterization of gamma, Meixner hypergeometric and negative binomial distributions based on canonical measures
    Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 359–363, 1982
  54. Morgenstern's bivariate distribution and its application to point processes
    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 247–256, 1978