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Z. W. Birnbaum

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Publications

34

Citations

3.9K

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Active since

1942

Affiliations

University of Washington(Current)

Behavioral Tech Research, Inc.

Boeing (Australia)

Boeing (United States)

Stanford University

Z. W. Birnbaum is an author at University of Washington specializing in engineering, statistics, and probability theory.

Top concepts

EngineeringStatisticsStatistical InferenceProbabilityReliability EngineeringStructural Health MonitoringLongevityBiostatisticsFatigueLarge Deviations

Publications per year

1942–1980

34

Publications

34

A new family of life distributions

Z. W. Birnbaum, Sam C. Saunders · Journal of Applied Probability · 1969 · 799 citations

Engineering, Life Prediction, Mechanical Engineering +22

Estimation for a family of life distributions with applications to fatigue

Z. W. Birnbaum, Sam C. Saunders · Journal of Applied Probability · 1969 · 463 citations

Life Assessment, Engineering, Life Prediction +16

Multi-Component Systems and Structures and Their Reliability

Z. W. Birnbaum, J. D. Esary, Sam C. Saunders · Technometrics · 1961 · 304 citations

Circuit Complexity, Engineering, Boolean Function +18

On Random Variables with Comparable Peakedness

Z. W. Birnbaum · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1948 · 197 citations · Full text

Engineering, Comparable Peakedness, Probability Theory +4

Numerical Tabulation of the Distribution of Kolmogorov's Statistic for Finite Sample Size

Z. W. Birnbaum · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1952 · 187 citations

American Statistical Association, Engineering, Numerical Tabulation +8

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