A Monte-Carlo Technique for Estimating Lower Confidence Limits on System Reliability Using Pass-Fail Data

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-32, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 366-369

  Rice, Roy E ^a   Moore, Albert H ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Monte Carlo simulation; s Confidence limit

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS - MONTE CARLO METHODS;

LOWER CONFIDENCE LIMITS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0020830391     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1983.5221686     Document Type: Article

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