Publications

Below is a list of my publications in reverse chronological order.  If your institution does not have access to any of these journals, feel free to contact me for a preprint.

Refereed Publications

  1. N. Balakrishnan and W. Volterman. Exact nonparametric inference for component and system lifetime distributions based on joint signatures. Reliability, IEEE Transactions on, 65(1): 179–186
  2. W. Volterman, N. Balakrishnan, K.F. Davies, and H.K.T. Ng. Exact nonparametric meta-analysis of lifetime data from systems with known signatures. Reliability, IEEE Transactions on, 65(2): 796–801, 2016.
  3. N. Balakrishnan and William Volterman. On the signatures of ordered system lifetimes. Journal of Applied Probability, 51(1):82–91, 2014.
  4. W. Volterman, E. Cramer, K. F. Davies, and N. Balakrishnan. Further results on order statistics generated by two simulation methods. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 43(10):2732–2743, 2014.
  5. William Volterman, N. Balakrishnan, and Erhard Cramer. Exact meta-analysis of several independent progressively type-ii censored data. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 38(3):949–960, 2014.
  6. William Volterman, Katherine. Davies, N. Balakrishnan, and Jafar Ahmadi. Nonparametric prediction of future order statistics. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84(3):683–695, 2014.
  7. N. Balakrishnan, W. Volterman, and Li Zhang. A meta-analysis of multisample type-ii censored data with parametric and nonparametric results. Reliability, IEEE Transactions on, 62(1):2–12, March 2013.
  8. William Volterman and N. Balakrishnan. Efficient iterative computation of mixture weights for pooled order statistics for meta-analysis of multiple type-ii right censored data. Computational Statistics, 28(5):2231–2239, 10 2013.
  9. William Volterman, Katherine F. Davies, and N. Balakrishnan. Simultaneous pitman closeness of progressively type-ii right-censored order statistics to population quantiles. Statistics, 47(2):439–452, 2013.
  10. William Volterman, Katherine F. Davies, and N. Balakrishnan. Two-sample pitman closeness comparison under progressive type-ii censoring. Statistics, 47(6):1305–1320, 2013.
  11. William Volterman, N. Balakrishnan, and Erhard Cramer. Exact nonparametric meta-analysis for multiple independent doubly type-ii censored samples. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 56(5):1243 — 1255, 2012.
  12. William Volterman, Katherine F. Davies, and N. Balakrishnan. Pitman closeness as a criterion for the determination of the optimal progressive censoring scheme. Statistical Methodology, 9(6):563 — 572, 2012.
  13. William Volterman and N. Balakrishnan. Exact nonparametric confidence, prediction and tolerance intervals based on multi-sample type-ii right censored data. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140(11):3306 — 3316, 2010.