Research of Marcus A. Agustin

Research Presentations at Professional Meetings

• Finite-Sample Properties of a System Reliability Estimator Under Imperfect Debugging, 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August 2008
• System Reliability: A Dynamic Model Using Counting Counting Processes, 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2008
• An Estimator of the Reliability of a System of Components, 2006 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2006
• Finite-Sample Properties of a System of Softwares, 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, California, August 2003
• A Dynamic Model for a System of Softwares Following the Littlewood Software Reliability Model, International Conference in Reliability and Survival Analysis, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, May 2003
• Finite-Sample Properties of a Series of Softwares Using the Littlewood Software Reliability Model, 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings, New York City, New York, August 2002
• A Generalized Littlewood Software Reliability Model Using Exponential Completion Times, 2002 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2002
• Statistical Properties of the Littlewood Model Using a Dynamic Modeling Approach, Fifth North American New Researchers Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 3, 2001
  
• A Dynamic Competing Risks Approach for the Littlewood Model, 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, August 1999
  
• Reliability of a Competing Risks System Following a Two-Stage Debugging Scheme, Fourth North American New Researchers Conference, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, August 1999
  
• A Stopping Criterion for a Dynamic Competing Risks Model, International Conference in Reliability and Survival Analysis, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, May 1998
  
• A Dynamic Competing Risks Model with Applications to Software Reliability, 7th Eugene Lukacs Symposium, Bowling Green State University, April 1997
  
• A Stopping Criterion for Software Reliability Testing, 1996 Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 1996
  
• Dynamic Competing Risks Model with Applications in Software Reliability, 1995 Joint Statistical Meetings, Orlando, Florida, August 1995
  
  

Research Papers

• Agustin, M. and Agustin, Z. (2009) Modeling a System of Softwares Under Imperfect Debugging. InterStat, July (4).
• Agustin, Z. and Agustin, M. (2009) Algebra and Precalculus Skills and Performance in First-Semester Calculus. International Journal of Case Method Research and Application, 21(3), 232-236.
• Agustin, M. (2007) Parallel, Series, and Series-Parallel Systems. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, (eds. F. Ruggeri, R. Kenett, and R.W. Faltin), John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 1317-1324.
• Agustin, Z., Agustin, M. and Pena, E. (2007) Analysis of Recurrent Events and Testing for Minimal Repair. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, (eds. F. Ruggeri, R. Kenett, and R.W. Faltin), John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 100-109.
• Ritterbusch, R., LaFond, L. and Agustin, M. (2006) Helping Students Master German Case: Implications from an Action-Research Project. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 39, 30-45.
• Agustin, M. (2006) An Estimator of the Reliability of a System of Components. Proceedings of the 2006 Hawaii International Conference in Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields.
• Agustin, M. (2003) Statistical Properties of a System Reliability Estimator Using the Littlewood Software Reliability Model. Journal of Applied Probability, 40, 766-778.
• Agustin, M. (2000) A Stopping Criterion for a Dynamic Competing Risks Model. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2, 203-221.
  
• Agustin, M. (2000) Reliability Estimation for a System of Softwares. Abstracts' Book Vol. 1, MMR2000, Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology, Practice and Inference (eds. M. Nikulin and N. Limnios), Universite Victor Segalen-Bordeaux2, 51-54.
  
• Agustin, M. (1999) Asymptotic and Finite-Sample Properties of a Reliability Estimator for a Competing Risks System. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 64, 221-234.
  
• Agustin, M. and Pena, E. (1999) A Dynamic Competing Risks Model. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 13, 333-358.