MIL-STD-781C and Confidence Intervals on Mean Time between Failures

Abstract

Various realistic examples illustrate how to obtain confidence limits on the mean time between failures (MTBF) of an exponential distribution from data obtained from one of the fixed-size or sequential test plans of MIL-STD- 871C. For fixed-length tests, the methods developed by B. Epstein and the modifications of H. L. Harter are briefly discussed. For the sequential tests simple charts for newly developed methods of Bryant and Schmee are given.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 28, 1979
Accession Number
ADA069966

Entities

People

  • Josef Schmee

Organizations

  • Union College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptance Tests
  • Confidence Limits
  • Data Science
  • Discrimination
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Information Science
  • Intervals
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Life Tests
  • Probability
  • Rejection
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Statistical Tests
  • Test Methods
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Statistical inference.