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I am looking for a grad level book on survivability analysis applied to manufacturing such as assembly lines. Preferably in R. I am familiar with measure theory, probability theory and R.

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  • Could you clarify "reliability analysis"? - at least one meaning of that term is synonymous with "survival analysis", i.e. the analysis of (possibly censored) time-to-event data. Reliability engineering on the other hand employs a much broader variety of statistical methods. – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Aug 26 '15 at 12:14
  • It's "survival analysis" (in Medical Statistics, & often enough in general statistical usage) or "reliability analysis" (in Engineering Statistics). – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Aug 26 '15 at 16:12

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The following used to be standard texts for engineering statistics, & have been through many editions:

  • Box Hunter & Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters

  • Montgomery, Design & Analysis of Experiments

  • Montgomery, Statistical Process Control

Both the Montgomery books also had copious supplemental material online. (I just looked & it still exists; I also happened on the R Companion to Design and Analysis of Experiments.

You might also want an general introductory book on Statistics

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  • Go for Box, Hunter & Hunter, the Montgomery Design book have errors (the other Montgomery book I do not know) – kjetil b halvorsen Aug 26 '15 at 12:41
  • @kjetilbhalvorsen: Could you elaborate on the errors? – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Aug 26 '15 at 12:45
  • :I do not have that Montgomery book with me now (and what I have seen was a spanish translation), but my impression was that the book was old-fashioned, and conceptually weaker than BHH. The error was in the interpretation of an ANOVA table, where the wrong sumsquare was used for error in the F test. – kjetil b halvorsen Aug 26 '15 at 12:53
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Another nice resource (but no R) is provided by:

O'Connor, P.D.T. & Kleyner, A. (2012). Practical Reliability Engineering. Wiley

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Reliability-Engineering-Patrick-OConnor/dp/047097981X

It has a more in-situ treatment, which I believe is what you are looking for.

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