This book provides a fresh approach to reliability theory, an area that
has gained increasing relevance in fields from statistics and
engineering to demography and insurance. Its innovative use of quantile
functions gives an analysis of lifetime data that is generally simpler,
more robust, and more accurate than the traditional methods, and opens
the door for further research in a wide variety of fields involving
statistical analysis. In addition, the book can be used to good effect
in the classroom as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate
courses in Reliability and Statistics.