{"title":"MMAPs to Model Complex Multi-State Systems with Vacation Policies in the Repair Facility","authors":"J. E. Ruiz-Castro, Christian Acal","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1524","url":null,"abstract":"Two complex multi-state systems subject to multiple events are built in an algorithmic and computational way by considering phase-type distributions and Markovian arrival processes with marked arrivals. The internal performance of the system is composed of different degradation levels and internal repairable and non-repairable failures can occur. Also, the system is subject to external shocks that may provoke repairable or non-repairable failure. A multiple vacation policy is introduced in the system for the repairperson. Preventive maintenance is included in the system to improve the behaviour. Two types of task may be performed by the repairperson; corrective repair and preventive maintenance. The systems are modelled, the transient and stationary distributions are built and different performance measures are calculated in a matrix-algorithmic form. Cost and rewards are included in the model in a vector matrix way. Several economic measures are worked out and the net reward per unit of time is used to optimize the system. A numerical example shows that the system can be optimized according to the existence of preventive maintenance and the distribution of vacation time. The results have been implemented computationally with Matlab and R (packages: expm, optim).","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45050910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Software Reliability Model Using Fault Removal Efficiency","authors":"Md. Asraful Haque, N. Ahmad","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1523","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase of human dependency over computer software, considerable effort has been given to determine software reliability effectively. A huge variety of software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been developed to explain statistically how system reliability varies over time by monitoring the failure data sets during the testing process. The paper proposes a new SRGM based on taking into account the fault removal efficiency which is the ratio of corrected and detected faults during the testing process. The new model is compared to some known model from the relevant literature for two certain data sets and it turns out to perform better in terms of four GOF benchmarks.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45144503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Copula Based Stress-Strength Reliability Estimation with Lindley Marginals","authors":"A. James, N. Chandra, M. Pandey","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15114","url":null,"abstract":"The stress-strength model is a basic tool used in evaluating the reliability (R). It shows that a component or system with stress (Y) and strength (X) will fail if the stress exceeds the strength, and its counterpart allows it to function. Usually, the statistical independence between X and Y are assumed and reliability models are extensively developed in the literature. However, in real life, there are many situations in which the dependence stress-strength is taken into account. So it is important to consider and model the association between them. In this paper, we estimated R when the stress and strength parameters are linked by a Fralie-Gumble-Morgenstern copula with Lindley marginals. The estimates of reliability and dependence parameter are obtained by using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), inference function margins (IFM), and semi parametric (SP) methods. In addition, the length of the asymptotic confidence interval and the coverage probability of the dependence parameter are also computed. A simulation study is performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the various estimates, and a real data set is also used for illustrative purposes.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48094176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prosumption for Social Sustainability: Social-media Posting of DIY-cooking Outcomes During COVID-19","authors":"Vibha Trivedi, Krishan Kumar Pandey, A. Trivedi","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15115","url":null,"abstract":"Sharing of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) cooking outcomes on various social media platforms was one of the most visible phenomena on the digital landscapes during COVID-19 led lockdowns. Since the prosumption of food is not considered as a source of alternative food system only, but also as a source of pleasure, DIY-cooking-related social media posts during the lockdown were prevalent among internet users. This paper examines variations in the social media posting behavior of food prosumers based on four individual and three social factors of gender, age, marital status, and family structure. Responses from 198 Facebook food community members were used to test the statistical hypotheses. The analyses report that the need for entertainment value while posting on social media was different among different demographic factors, whereas self-discovery and social enhancement did not exhibit variations across demographics. The need for social presence mattered more for unmarried people during social isolation whereas females used DIY-cooking posting to fulfil the need for uniqueness. The implications for social sustainability and business practices are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46220298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Efficiencies of Ratio- and Product-type Estimators for Estimating Population Mean for Time-based Survey","authors":"Priyanka Chhaparwal, Sanjay Kumar","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15113","url":null,"abstract":"Statisticians often use auxiliary information at an estimation stage to increase efficiencies of estimators. In this article, we suggest modified ratio- and product-type estimators utilizing the known value of the coefficient of variation of the auxiliary variable for a time-based survey. Further, to excel the performance of the suggested estimators, we utilize information from the past surveys along with the current surveys through hybrid exponentially weighted average. We obtain expressions for biases and mean square errors of the suggested estimators. The conditions, under which the suggested estimators have less mean square errors than that of other existing estimators, are also obtained. The results obtained through an empirical analysis examine the use of information from past surveys along with current surveys and show that the mean square errors and biases of the suggested estimators are less than that of the existing estimators. For example: for a sample size 5, mean square error and bias of the suggested ratio-type estimator are (0.0414,0.0065) which are less than (0.5581,0.0944) of the existing Cochran (1940) estimator, (0.4788,0.0758), of Sisodia and Dwivedi (1981) estimator and (0.0482,0.0082) of Muhammad Noor-ul-Amin (2020) estimator. Similarly, mean square error and bias of the suggested product- type estimator are (0.0025,−0.0006) which are less than (0.0612,−0.0096) of the existing Murthy (1964) estimator, (0.0286,−0.0071), of Pandey and Dubey (1988) estimator and (0.0053,−0.0008) of Muhammad Noor-ul-Amin (2020) estimator.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49401758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GDUS-Modified Topp-Leone Distribution: A New Distribution with Increasing, Decreasing, and Bathtub Hazard Functions","authors":"A. Kaushik, U. Nigam","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15112","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an extension to the Topp-Leone distribution, as introduced by [20] using the Generalized-DUS transformation given by [8]. The Topp-Leone distribution is defined on interval (0,1) and has a characteristic J-shaped frequency curve. The newly extended version of Topp-Leone distribution accommodates a variety of shapes of hazard rate functions making it a versatile distribution. We have also derived explicit expressions for some properties like ordinary moments, conditional moments, distribution of order statistics, quantiles, mean deviation, and entropy. Further, we have also discussed results on identifiability, stress-strength reliability, and stochastic ordering that are concerned with two independent random variables. For inference regarding the unknown parameters of the distribution, we derive the equations which give their maximum likelihood estimators. We also present the asymptotic confidence intervals of the unknown parameters of the distribution, based on large sample property, using the Fisher information matrix. To facilitate further studies, a step-by-step algorithm is presented to produce a random sample from the distribution. Further, extensive simulation experiments are done to study the long-term behavior of the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters through their mean squared error and mean absolute bias on the basis of large number of samples. The consistency of the MLEs is empirically proved. Lastly, the application of the proposed distribution is shown by fitting a real-life dataset over some existing distributions in the same range.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42752644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bayesian Estimation for the Two Log-Logistic Models Under Joint Type II Censoring Schemes","authors":"Ranjita Pandey, Pulkit Srivastava","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.15110","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper, discusses classical and Bayesian estimation of unknown combined parameters of two different log-logistic models with common shape parameters and different scale parameters under a new type of censoring scheme known as joint type II censoring scheme. Maximum likelihood estimators are derived. Bayes estimates of parameters are proposed under different loss functions. Classical asymptotic confidence intervals along with the Bayesian credible intervals and Highest Posterior Density region are also constructed. Markov Chain Monte Carlo approximation method is used for simulating the theoretic results. Comparative assessment of the classical and the Bayes results are illustrated through a real archived dataset.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48786947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Some Improved Classes of Estimators Under Stratified Sampling Using Attribute","authors":"Shashi Bhushan, Anoop Kumar, Dushyant Tyagi, Saurabh Singh","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1518","url":null,"abstract":"This article establishes some improved classes of difference and ratio type estimators of population mean of study variable using information on auxiliary attribute under stratified simple random sampling. The usual mean estimator, classical ratio estimator, classical product estimator and classical regression estimator are identified as particular cases of the proposed classes of estimators for different values of the characterising scalars. The expression of mean square error of the suggested classes of estimators has been studied up to first order of approximation and their effective performances are likened with respect to the conventional as well as lately existing estimators. Subsequently, an empirical study has been carried out using a real data set in support of theoretical results. The empirical results justify the proposition of the proposed classes of estimators in terms of percent relative efficiency over all discussed work till date. Suitable suggestions are forwarded to the survey practitioners.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48570738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of Fuzzy Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Model in the Presence of Inspection Errors in Single Sampling Plans","authors":"Julia T. Thomas, Mahesh Kumar","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1519","url":null,"abstract":"Inventory management is the core of the supply chain management system, in which the economic order quantity (EOQ) model is a fundamental inventory model. This paper develops a fuzzy EOQ model in the presence of inspection errors in single sampling plans. The model assumes probability of mis-classifications. An inventory system is hypothesized where the orders undergo acceptance sampling, back-orders are eliminated, and defectives are set aside from the inventory. Due to the presence of vagueness in real time data, the rate at which an order turn to be scrap, the costs of holding, and the back-orders are characterized by fuzzy random variables. Since total profit involved is a random variable, maximum total expected profit is obtained. Some numerical examples are presented, and a sensitivity analysis study is carried out to check the validity of the model developed.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43026298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classical and the Bayesian estimation of process capability index Cpy: A comparative study","authors":"Sumit Kumar","doi":"10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/jrss0974-8024.1517","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, to estimate the process capability index Cpy when the process follows different distributions (Lindley, Xgamma, and Akash distribution), we have used five methods of estimation, namely, the maximum likelihood method of estimation, least and weighted least squares method of estimation, maximum product of spacings method of estimation and Bayesian method of estimation. The Bayesian estimation is studied for symmetric loss function with the help of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm method. The confidence intervals for the index Cpy are constructed based on four bootstrap methods and Bayesian methods. We studied the performances of these estimators based on their corresponding MSEs/risks for the point estimates of Cpy, and average widths AW for interval estimates. To assess the accuracy of the various approaches, Monte Carlo simulations are conducted. It is found that the Bayes estimates performed better than the considered classical estimates in terms of their corresponding risks. To illustrate the performance of the proposed methods, two real data sets are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":42526,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48295245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}