1. CONFIDENCE LIMITS FOR THE RELIABILITY OF SERIES SYSTEMS.
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El Mawaziny, A. H. and Buehler, R. J.
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CONFIDENCE intervals , *CONFIDENCE , *PROBABILITY theory , *EXPONENTIAL families (Statistics) , *APPROXIMATION theory , *FUNCTIONAL analysis , *POLYNOMIALS - Abstract
It is desired to set confidence limits for the probability of successful operation at least until time x[sub 0] of a series system of k dissimilar components. The components follow exponential failure laws, and data are available on failure times of components of each type. Exact confidence limits for k=2 have previously been given by Lentner and Buehler. The present paper deals with a large-sample approximation to the exact solution for arbitrary k. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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