A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONFIDENCE BOUND ON UNRELIABILITY WHEN TIME-TO-FAILURE IS NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED

Abstract

Methods to set an upper, one-sided 100(1 - alpha) percent confidence limit (1 - alpha is a preassigned confidence coefficient) on the unreliability of certain weapon components are developed. The time-to-failure is assumed to be distributed normally. The method is based upon life tests in which every member of a randomly selected sample is tested to failure in an environment which simulates the actual operational environment. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1959
Accession Number
AD0286302

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People

  • Patrick L. Odell
  • Vanamalai Seshadri

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Confidence Limits
  • Data Science
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Life Tests

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Statistical inference.