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INTRODUCTION TO RELIABILITY TESTING AND ANALYSIS

Training materials: Introduction to Reliability student participant guide

Course agenda:

            I.        BASIC STATISTICAL CONCEPTS
                         - Confidence intervals
                         - Hypothesis testing

           II.        GRAPHICAL TOOLS
                         - Dot plot, histogram, box plot
                         - End count test

          III.        RELIABILITY CONCEPTS
                         - Reliability function
                         - Hazard function
                         - Bathtub curve
                         - Censoring

           IV.        COMMON RELIABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
                         - Exponential
                         - Weibull
                         - Normal
                         - Lognormal

            V.        NONPARAMETRIC RELIABILITY
                         - Kaplan-Meier Estimates
                         - Comparing survival curves

           VI.        PROBABILITY PLOTTING
                         - Probability paper
                         - Distribution identification

          VII.        ESTIMATION
                         - Least squares estimation
                         - Maximum likelihood estimation
                         - Estimating percentile failure times
                         - Estimating probability of failure

         VIII.        SYSTEM FAILURE
                         - Series systems
                         - Parallel systems
                         - R out of N systems
                         - Competing risk model
                         - Dealing with multiple failure modes

            IX.        PLANNING RELIABILITY TESTS
                         - Sample size calculations via simulation
                         - Sample size calculations using large sample approximations
                         - Zero failure testing

            X.        ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING (time permitting)
                         - Linear acceleration
                         - Testing for equal linear acceleration
                         - Arrhenius acceleration

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