SALT: Software for Adversarial Life Testing,

Abstract

The paper by Lindley & Singpurwalla concerns itself with adversarial life testing. In particular it considered the situation where a manufacturer must decide whether to offer a sample of his product for testing in order to convince a consumer of the reliability of that product. If testing is to be done then it considers how many of the product should be tested. This is a decision problem and so first a probability model and set of utilities need to be developed. Then a simple criterion for whether testing should begin is given, and how many products should be tested if testing is to occur; the latter is done by picking the number of products to be tested that maximize expected utility. Pg2. JMD

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA293958

Entities

People

  • Simon P. Wilson

Organizations

  • George Washington University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Consumers
  • Military Research
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Scientific Research
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Universities
  • User Friendly
  • Vulnerability

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  • Industrial Economics
  • Statistical inference.
  • Systems Analysis and Design