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6. Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life
Data, Mann, N., R. Schafer, and N. Singpurwalla, John
Wiley, NY, 1974.
7. Statistical Confidence, Romeu, J.L., RAC START,
Volume 9, Number 4, http://rac.alionscience.com/pdf/
STAT_CO.pdf.
8. Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution,
Romeu, J.L., RAC START, Volume 8, Number 2,
http://rac.alionscience.com/pdf/E_ASSUME.pdf.
9. Empirical
Assessment of Normal and Lognormal
Distribution Assumptions, Romeu, J.L., RAC START,
Volume 9, Number 6, http://rac.alionscience.com/pdf/
NLDIST.pdf.
10. Empirical
Assessment of Weibull Distribution, Romeu,
J.L., RAC START, Volume 10, Number 3, http://rac.
alionscience.com/pdf/WEIBULL.pdf.
11. The Chi-Square: a Large-Sample Goodness of Fit Test,
Romeu, J.L., RAC START, Volume 10, Number 4,
http://rac.alionscience.com/pdf/Chi_Square.pdf.
12. Kolmogorov-Smirnov GoF
Test, Romeu, J.L., RAC
START, Volume 10, Number 6.
About the Author
Dr. Jorge Luis Romeu has over thirty years of statistical and
operations research experience in consulting, research, and
teaching. He was a consultant for the petrochemical, construc-
tion, and agricultural industries. Dr. Romeu has also worked in
statistical and simulation modeling and in data analysis of soft-
ware and hardware reliability, software engineering and ecolog-
ical problems.
Dr. Romeu has taught undergraduate and graduate statistics,
operations research, and computer science in several American
and foreign universities. He teaches short, intensive profession-
al training courses. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of
Statistics and Operations Research for Syracuse University and
a Practicing Faculty of that school's Institute for Manufacturing
Enterprises. Dr. Romeu is a Chartered Statistician Fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society, Full Member of the Operations
Research Society of America, and Fellow of the Institute of
Statisticians.
Romeu is a senior technical advisor for reliability and advanced
information technology research with Alion Science and
Technology. Since joining Alion in 1998, Romeu has provided
consulting for several statistical and operations research projects.
He has written a State of the Art Report on Statistical Analysis of
Materials Data, designed and taught a three-day intensive statis-
tics course for practicing engineers, and written a series of arti-
cles on statistics and data analysis for the AMPTIAC Newsletter
and RAC Journal.
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About the Reliability Analysis Center
The Reliability Analysis Center is a Department of Defense Information Analysis Center (IAC). RAC serves as a government
and industry focal point for efforts to improve the reliability, maintainability, supportability and quality of manufactured com-
ponents and systems. To this end, RAC collects, analyzes, archives in computerized databases, and publishes data concerning
the quality and reliability of equipments and systems, as well as the microcircuit, discrete semiconductor, and electromechani-
cal and mechanical components that comprise them. RAC also evaluates and publishes information on engineering techniques
and methods. Information is distributed through data compilations, application guides, data products and programs on comput-
er media, public and private training courses, and consulting services. Located in Rome, NY, the Reliability Analysis Center is
sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Alion, and its predecessor company IIT Research Institute,
have operated the RAC continuously since its creation in 1968. Technical management of the RAC is provided by the U.S. Air
Force's Research Laboratory Information Directorate (formerly Rome Laboratory).
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