| Article ID: | iaor20103637 |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 14 |
| End Page Number: | 27 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Journal: | Reliability Engineering and System Safety |
| Authors: | Bunea Cornel, Mazzuchi Thomas A, Sarkani Shahram, Chang Hai-Chin |
| Keywords: | quality & reliability |
This paper focuses on analysis techniques of modern reliability databases, with an application to military system data. The analysis of military system data base consists of the following steps: clean the data and perform operation on it in order to obtain good estimators; present simple plots of data; analyze the data with statistical and probabilistic methods. Each step is dealt with separately and the main results are presented.