Chin‐Diew Lai

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Chin‐Diew Lai is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Chin‐Diew Lai has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Statistics and Probability, 18 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 12 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Chin‐Diew Lai's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (21 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (18 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (10 papers). Chin‐Diew Lai is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (21 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (18 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (10 papers). Chin‐Diew Lai collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Canada and Iran. Chin‐Diew Lai's co-authors include Min Xie, Mark Bebbington, Ričardas Zitikis, N. Balakrishnan, Mansour Aghababaei Jazi, Hoang Pham, Geoff Jones, Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz, Jorge Navarro and B. F. Houghton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Theoretical Biology, Reliability Engineering & System Safety and Applied Mathematics and Computation.

In The Last Decade

Chin‐Diew Lai

31 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability
    2006 381 citations Chin‐Diew Lai, Min Xie profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chin‐Diew Lai New Zealand 17 1.2k 721 445 246 227 31 1.7k
C. D. Lai New Zealand 21 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 547 1.2× 315 1.3× 270 1.2× 77 2.4k
Tomasz Rychlik Poland 18 1.1k 0.9× 571 0.8× 362 0.8× 300 1.2× 79 0.3× 91 1.6k
Artur J. Lemonte Brazil 27 2.0k 1.6× 1.0k 1.4× 340 0.8× 182 0.7× 346 1.5× 114 2.2k
N. Unnikrishnan Nair India 19 1.1k 0.9× 652 0.9× 221 0.5× 191 0.8× 127 0.6× 128 1.3k
M. E. Ghitany Kuwait 25 2.6k 2.1× 1.6k 2.3× 541 1.2× 278 1.1× 489 2.2× 67 2.8k
M. Masoom Ali United States 21 1.3k 1.0× 569 0.8× 106 0.2× 335 1.4× 180 0.8× 129 1.7k
Erhard Cramer Germany 25 2.5k 2.0× 1.7k 2.4× 531 1.2× 394 1.6× 483 2.1× 116 2.6k
Maurice C. Bryson United States 15 745 0.6× 428 0.6× 256 0.6× 195 0.8× 122 0.5× 31 1.3k
Ehab M. Almetwally Egypt 26 2.2k 1.8× 1.2k 1.6× 375 0.8× 329 1.3× 448 2.0× 222 2.4k
Hassan S. Bakouch Egypt 19 1.4k 1.1× 700 1.0× 182 0.4× 223 0.9× 270 1.2× 154 1.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chin‐Diew Lai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lai, Chin‐Diew, Geoff Jones, & Min Xie. (2016). Integrated beta model for bathtub-shaped hazard rate data. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management. 13(3). 229–240. 9 indexed citations
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Lin, Gwo Dong, Chin‐Diew Lai, & K. Govindaraju. (2015). Correlation structure of the Marshall–Olkin bivariate exponential distribution. Statistical Methodology. 29. 1–9. 7 indexed citations
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Khaledi, ‎Baha-Eldin, et al.. (2015). On testing more IFRA ordering-II. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 45(15). 4556–4568. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Chin‐Diew & Gwo Dong Lin. (2014). Mean time to failure of systems with dependent components. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 246. 103–111. 8 indexed citations
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Lai, Chin‐Diew & Geoff Jones. (2014). Beta Hazard Rate Distribution and Applications. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 64(1). 44–50. 7 indexed citations
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Lai, Chin‐Diew. (2013). Generalized Weibull Distributions. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 60 indexed citations
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Jazi, Mansour Aghababaei, Geoff Jones, & Chin‐Diew Lai. (2012). Integer Valued AR(1) with Geometric Innovations. 11(2). 173–190. 28 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, et al.. (2012). The discrete additive Weibull distribution: A bathtub-shaped hazard for discontinuous failure data. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 106. 37–44. 49 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Matthew R. Goddard, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2009). Identifying health inequalities between Māori and non‐Māori using mortality tables. Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. 4(2). 103–114. 3 indexed citations
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Jazi, Mansour Aghababaei, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz. (2009). A discrete inverse Weibull distribution and estimation of its parameters. Statistical Methodology. 7(2). 121–132. 116 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2008). LIFETIME ANALYSIS OF INCANDESCENT LAMPS: THE MENON-AGRAWAL MODEL REVISITED. Reliability: Theory & Applications. 3. 6 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2008). Life expectancy of a bathtub shaped failure distribution. Statistical Papers. 51(3). 599–612. 2 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2007). BATHTUB‐TYPE CURVES IN RELIABILITY AND BEYOND. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 49(3). 251–265. 19 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2007). Estimating the turning point of a bathtub-shaped failure distribution. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 138(4). 1157–1166. 4 indexed citations
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Navarro, Jorge & Chin‐Diew Lai. (2007). Ordering Properties of Systems with Two Dependent Components. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 36(3). 645–655. 26 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2007). Reply to S. Nadarajah concerning “A flexible Weibull extension”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety (2007; 92: 719–26). Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 92(10). 1485–1485. 3 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2007). Reliability of Modules with Load-Sharing Components. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences. 2007. 1–18. 4 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2006). Modeling human mortality using mixtures of bathtub shaped failure distributions. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 245(3). 528–538. 62 indexed citations
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Bebbington, Mark, Chin‐Diew Lai, & Ričardas Zitikis. (2006). A flexible Weibull extension. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 92(6). 719–726. 251 indexed citations
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Paton, Douglas, David Johnston, Mark Bebbington, Chin‐Diew Lai, & B. F. Houghton. (2000). Direct and Vicarious Experience of Volcanic Hazards: Implications for Risk Perception and Adjustment Adoption. Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 15(4). 58–63. 50 indexed citations

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