| Article ID: | iaor20071116 |
| Country: | Singapore |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 407 |
| End Page Number: | 419 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Journal: | Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Park Dong Ho, Lim Jae-Hak, Kim Dae Kyung |
| Keywords: | queues: applications, performance, measurement |
Steady-state availability, denoted by A, has been widely used as a measure to evaluate the reliability of a repairable system. In this paper, we develop new confidence intervals for steady-state availability based on four bootstrap methods: standard bootstrap confidence interval, percentile bootstrap confidence interval, bootstrap-t confidence interval, and bias-corrected and accelerated confidence interval. We also investigate the accuracy of these bootstrap confidence intervals by calculating the coverage probability and the average length of intervals.