LOCATION:   3126 Coover Hall

SPEAKER:   Renkuan Guo, Department of Statistical Science, University of Cape Town
 

TITLE: Fuzzy Covariate Modelling An Imperfectly Repaired System

ABSTRACT:

In this research, an extension to Zadeh's (1965) fundamental concept of membership function of a fuzzy set to that of sample membership function of a fuzzy set, which is essentially the ideation of Chu (1998) to facilitate a statistical model allowing the covariate structure with both numerical records as well as linguistic evaluations of an imperfectly repaired system is discussed. Furthermore, a semi-statistical development is engaged for aggregating the fuzzy covariate's impacts on the system with the aid of logical function and finally leads to the maximum likelihood estimation of the system parameters and the aggregate parameter of covariates COFFEE:  3:45 p.m., 119 Snedecor Hall