Theory and counterexamples for confidence limits on system reliability

Bernard Harris and Andrew P. Soms

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1991, vol. 11, issue 5, 411-417

Abstract: The general theory of optimal confidence limits for system reliability based on results of Buehler (1957) and Sudakov and references cited there (1974) is developed. Counterexamples to some results of Sudakov (1974), Winterbottom (1974) and Harris and Soms (1980, 1981) are exhibited. Numerical examples are given for two component series systems which show that the results hold for confidence levels used in practice.

Keywords: Optimal; confidence; limits; reliability; series; system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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