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The Dinegentropy of Diagnostic Tests
Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Boya Lai
Diagnostic testing is germane to a variety of scenarios in medicine, pandemic tracking, threat detection, and signal processing. This is an expository paper with some original resu…
Adversarial Stress Testing of Lifetime Distributions
Nozer Singpurwalla
In this paper we put forward the viewpoint that the notion of stress testing financial institutions and engineered systems can also be made viable appropos the stress testing an in…
How and Why Did Probability Theory Come About?
Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Boya Lai
This paper is a top down historical perspective on the several phases in the development of probability from its prehistoric origins to its modern day evolution, as one of the key…
Bernoulli Trials With Skewed Propensities for Certification and Validation
Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Boya Lai
The impetus for writing this paper are the well publicized media reports that software failure was the cause of the two recent mishaps of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The problem c…
What Does the "Mean" Really Mean?
Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Boya Lai
The arithmetic average of a collection of observed values of a homogeneous collection of quantities is often taken to be the most representative observation. There are several argu…