On determining sample size and testing duration of repairable system test

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Guo, Huairui ^a   Pan, Rong ^b  

^a RELIASOFT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimation; Reliability test plan; Repairable system

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; DEMONSTRATION TESTS; MINIMAL SAMPLE; NON-REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; PIVOTAL QUANTITY; RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION; RELIABILITY METRICS; RELIABILITY TEST PLAN; REPAIRABLE SYSTEM; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMULATION RESULT; TEST DURATION; THEORETICAL RESULT;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; TESTING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 67650323871     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2008.4925781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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