Adventures in Reliability: Heavily Censored Data

Abstract

At times reliability data are recorded as exact failure times on systems. This is a trivial case that is handled usually by simple textbook analysis approaches. Many times, especially in the T&E community, all that is known regarding failures is that a certain number of events have been observed during a flight. These type of data are called 'interval data' and do not equate with exact failure times. Trivial analysis approaches can severely bias MTBF estimates and 'paint a pretty picture.' In this presentation statistical techniques for handling this data are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 12, 2015
Accession Number
ADA624066

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People

  • Todd G. Remund

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  • Air Force Test Center

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  • Air Force
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Communities
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Intervals
  • Monitoring
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Textbooks

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  • Mathematics

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  • Systems Analysis and Design