Confidence Limits for System Reliability,

Abstract

The statistical problem of constructing confidence limits for system reliability from pass-fail data on the components is discussed. Usually such data are obtained from fixed sample size tests on the components. Exact and approximate methods for dealing with series systems are reviewed. A new approximate method is proposed and its performance evaluated in a number of special cases. An alternative approach that avoids some of the problems inherent in the above methods is to use variable sample size testing of the components. A sequential experimental design that is applicable to any coherent structure is given. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA047533

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  • P. F. Preston

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  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

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  • Abstracts
  • Binomials
  • Confidence Limits
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Networks
  • Numbers
  • Probability
  • Quality Control
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Statistics
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • Universities

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  • Mathematics

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  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Statistical inference.