Richard E. Barlow
Richard Eugene Barlow | |
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| Born | January 12, 1931 Galesburg, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Knox College University of Oregon Stanford University |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Reliability theory |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Applications of Semi-Markov Processes to Counter and Reliability Problems (1961) |
| Academic advisors | Samuel Karlin |
| Doctoral students | Telba Irony Yosi Ben-Dov |
Richard Eugene Barlow (born January 12, 1931) is an American mathematician and mathematical statistician, who is considered with Frank Proschan as the founder of modern reliability theory. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1963 until his retirement in 1999.
He introduced the concept of "Total Time on Test" processes in reliability theory. He and Proschan cowrote the book Mathematical Theory of Reliability.