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Statistical Reliability With Applications, Paul H. Kvam, Jye-Chyi Lu
Statistical Reliability With Applications, Paul H. Kvam, Jye-Chyi Lu
Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications
This chapter reviews fundamental ideas in reliability theory and inference. The first part of the chapter accounts for lifetime distributions that are used in engineering reliability analyis, including general properties of reliability distributions that pertain to lifetime for manufactured products. Certain distributions are formulated on the basis of simple physical properties, and other are more or less empirical. The first part of the chapter ends with a description of graphical and analytical methods to find appropriate lifetime distributions for a set of failure data.
The second part of the chapter describes statistical methods for analyzing reliability data, including maximum likelihood …