Are Maintenance Practices for Railroad Tracks Effective?

The Association of American Railroads wished to determine the effect of a maintenance practice known as grinding on the occurrence of rail fatigue defects and on the subsequent total traffic usage before a track must be replaced. Because a designed experiment was not practical, an analysis of histor...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the American Statistical Association 2005-03, Vol.100 (469), p.17-25
Hauptverfasser:	Merrick, Jason R. W, Soyer, Refik, Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applications Applications and Case Studies Counting process Dirichlet problem Exact sciences and technology Fatigue Fatigue failure Grinding Inference Insurance, economics, finance Markov analysis Markov chain Monte Carlo Mathematics Mixture of Dirichlet processes Modeling Monte Carlo simulation Multivariate analysis Parametric models Poisson process Probability and statistics Probability theory and stochastic processes Rail industry Railroad maintenance Railroad tracks Railroad transportation Sciences and techniques of general use Special processes (renewal theory, markov renewal processes, semi-markov processes, statistical mechanics type models, applications) Statistics Traffic Traffic flow
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