2008 ◽  
Vol 44-46 ◽  
pp. 871-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chu Yang Luo ◽  
Jun Jiang Xiong ◽  
R.A. Shenoi

This paper outlines a new technique to address the paucity of data in determining fatigue life and performance based on reliability concepts. Two new randomized models are presented for estimating the safe life and pS-N curve, by using the standard procedure for statistical analysis and dealing with small sample numbers of incomplete data. The confidence level formulations for the safe and p-S-N curve are also given. The concepts are then applied for the determination of the safe life and p-S-N curve. Two sets of fatigue tests for the safe life and p-S-N curve are conducted to validate the presented method, demonstrating the practical use of the proposed technique.


1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (17) ◽  
pp. 1183-1187
Author(s):  
J. G. Kreifeldt ◽  
S. H. Levine ◽  
M. C. Chuang

Sensory modalities exhibit a characteristic known as Weber's ratio which remarks that when two stimuli are compared for a difference: (1) there is some minimal nonzero difference which can be differentiated and (2) this minimal difference is a nearly constant proportion of the magnitude of the stimuli. Both of these would, in a typical measurement context, appear to be system defects. We have found through simulation explorations that in fact these are apparently the characteristics required by a system designed to extract an adequate amount of information from an incomplete observation data set according to a new approach to measurement.


Author(s):  
Yasunori Endo ◽  
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Tomoyuki Suzuki ◽  
Naohiko Kinoshita ◽  
Yukihiro Hamasuna ◽  
...  

The fuzzy non-metric model (FNM) is a representative non-hierarchical clustering method, which is very useful because the belongingness or the membership degree of each datum to each cluster can be calculated directly from the dissimilarities between data and the cluster centers are not used. However, the original FNM cannot handle data with uncertainty. In this study, we refer to the data with uncertainty as “uncertain data,” e.g., incomplete data or data that have errors. Previously, a methods was proposed based on the concept of a tolerance vector for handling uncertain data and some clustering methods were constructed according to this concept, e.g. fuzzyc-means for data with tolerance. These methods can handle uncertain data in the framework of optimization. Thus, in the present study, we apply the concept to FNM. First, we propose a new clustering algorithm based on FNM using the concept of tolerance, which we refer to as the fuzzy non-metric model for data with tolerance. Second, we show that the proposed algorithm can handle incomplete data sets. Third, we verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm based on comparisons with conventional methods for incomplete data sets in some numerical examples.


2010 ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo López-Negrete de la Fuente ◽  
Salvador García-Muñoz ◽  
Lorenz T. Biegler

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Matyja ◽  
Krzysztof Siminski

Abstract The missing values are not uncommon in real data sets. The algorithms and methods used for the data analysis of complete data sets cannot always be applied to missing value data. In order to use the existing methods for complete data, the missing value data sets are preprocessed. The other solution to this problem is creation of new algorithms dedicated to missing value data sets. The objective of our research is to compare the preprocessing techniques and specialised algorithms and to find their most advantageous usage.


2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (5-8) ◽  
pp. 467-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas A. Triantis ◽  
Katerina Vardinoyannis ◽  
Moisis Mylonas

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