Birnbaum‐Saunders distribution: A review of models, analysis, and applications

N Balakrishnan, D Kundu - Applied Stochastic Models in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Birnbaum and Saunders introduced a two‐parameter lifetime distribution to model the
fatigue life of a metal, subject to cyclic stress. Since then, extensive work has been done on …

Capability indices for Birnbaum–Saunders processes applied to electronic and food industries

V Leiva, C Marchant, H Saulo, M Aslam… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Process capability indices (PCIs) are tools widely used by the industries to determine the
quality of their products and the performance of their manufacturing processes. Classic …

On a partial least squares regression model for asymmetric data with a chemical application in mining

M Huerta, V Leiva, S Liu, M Rodríguez… - … and Intelligent Laboratory …, 2019 - Elsevier
In chemometrical applications, covariates in regression models are often correlated, causing
a collinearity problem that can be solved by partial least squares (PLS) regression. In …

Multivariate Birnbaum-Saunders distributions: modelling and applications

RG Aykroyd, V Leiva, C Marchant - Risks, 2018 - mdpi.com
Since its origins and numerous applications in material science, the Birnbaum–Saunders
family of distributions has now found widespread uses in some areas of the applied …

Reparameterized Birnbaum-Saunders regression models with varying precision

M Santos-Neto, FJA Cysneiros, V Leiva, M Barros - 2016 - projecteuclid.org
We propose a methodology based on a reparameterized Birnbaum-Saunders regression
model with varying precision, which generalizes the existing works in the literature on the …

Birnbaum–Saunders frailty regression models: Diagnostics and application to medical data

J Leão, V Leiva, H Saulo, V Tomazella - Biometrical Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In survival models, some covariates affecting the lifetime could not be observed or
measured. These covariates may correspond to environmental or genetic factors and be …

On a tobit–Birnbaum–Saunders model with an application to medical data

MF Desousa, H Saulo, V Leiva… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The tobit model allows a censored response variable to be described by covariates. Its
applications cover different areas such as economics, engineering, environment and …

A methodology for stochastic inventory models based on a zero‐adjusted Birnbaum‐Saunders distribution

V Leiva, M Santos‐Neto… - … Stochastic Models in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) distribution is receiving considerable attention. We propose a
methodology for inventory logistics that allows demand data with zeros to be modeled by …

A survival model with Birnbaum–Saunders frailty for uncensored and censored cancer data

J Leão, V Leiva, H Saulo, V Tomazella - 2018 - projecteuclid.org
Survival models with frailty are used when additional data are non-available to explain the
occurrence time of an event of interest. This non-availability may be considered as a random …

The transmuted Birnbaum–Saunders distribution

M Bourguignon, J Leão, V Leiva… - REVSTAT-Statistical …, 2017 - revstat.ine.pt
Abstract The Birnbaum–Saunders distribution has been largely studied and applied
because of its attractive properties. We introduce a transmuted version of this distribution …