AN INVESTIGATION OF CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON SYSTEM RELIABILITY WHEN COMPONENT SAMPLE SIZES VARY.

Abstract

The method for obtaining an approximate lower 100(1-alpha)% confidence limit on System Reliability is used, except, instead of a Gamma probability distribution, a Normal probability distribution is used as the underlying distribution for the estimator of the negative logarithm of system reliability. An investigation is made of the errors involved in the truncations and approximations used throughout the development. A continuity correction factor is developed, and confidence limits on system reliability, resulting from computer simulation, are presented both with and without the inclusion of this continuity correction factor.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0487820

Entities

People

  • Robert Theodore Isaacson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Confidence Limits
  • Continuity
  • Estimators
  • Inclusions
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Truncation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Systems Analysis and Design