Practical Applications of Bayesian Reliability

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to sincerely thank Xingfu Chen, Donald Musgrove, Alicia Thode, Paul DeGroot, Pei Li, Vladimir Nikolski, and Norman Allie for their contributions in reviewing the manuscript. The authors would also like to sincerely thank Bradley P. Carlin and Harrison Quick for helping to answer questions related to Bayesian statistics. Many thanks to Greg Peterson and Shane Sondreal for their reviews and support to make this work presentable.

Thanks to our mentor Eric Maass, who has a great passion for teaching statistical methods to engineers. Tarek Haddad and Karen Hulting also provided valuable consulting on this topic. Some examples in this book are modified from actual engineering applications. The authors want to thank many Medtronic coworkers who contributed their case studies and/or provided valuable feedback, including Roger Berg, Mun‐Peng Tan, Scott Hareland, Paul Wisnewski, Patrick Zimmerman, Xiaobo Wang, Jim Haase, Anders Olmanson, and Craig Wiklund.