System Reliability Assessment Using Statistical Control Variables.

Abstract

Control variable simulation is used to aid the evaluation of reliabilities of multi-input systems. Requiring only mild conditions on the mathematical functions, improved estimates of the statistical distribution functions (and thus the reliabilities) can be produced. It should be noted that control variable simulation is an application of post-stratification sampling procedures. The small variations and accuracies attained in the examples attest to the applicability of this technique to system reliability evaluation, with more general and widely varied problems being vulnerable to attack in a similar manner. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0784610

Entities

People

  • D. M. Scott
  • William B. Smith

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Performance (Engineering)
  • Reliability
  • Sampling
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Stratification
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Systems Analysis and Design