Evaluation of the accuracy of a lower confidence limit estimate for series system reliability.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of a procedure used to compute an estimate of the lower 100 (1- ƴ) % confidence limit for reliability of a system of independent components connected in logical series. The procedure takes a Bayesian approach and uses test data on the individual components where the sample sizes may be unequal and no knowledge of the component failure distribution is needed. A computer simulation is used to generate test failure data and to compute estimates for the lower 100 (1- ƴ) % confidence limit on system reliability.

Department dc:contributor.department

Operations Research and Administrative Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1972

Author dc:creator

• Evans, Samuel Hall.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Woods, W. M.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/16114

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/16114