Sensitivity Testing for Safety and Reliability

Abstract

Probit analysis and the staircase technique for sensitivity testing require prior knowledge or assumptions to provide the location and/or spacing of stimulus levels to be used in the experimentation. A preliminary experimentation phase using a modification of binary search is proposed to provide the input information necessary for efficient use of these techniques. For applications where the experimentation is severely limited, the results of this modified binary search can be used for purpose of comparison of the reliability and safety of competitive systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0727111

Entities

People

  • J. B. Tysver

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bioassay
  • Chemical Properties
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Explosives
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Inversion
  • Literature
  • Normal Distribution
  • Normality
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Safety
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects