761—Reliability and Life Testing. (3) (Prereq. or Coreq: STAT 703 or 713) The various probability models and theory of inference used in reliability and life testing, including classes of life distributions, maintenance and replacement models, parametric and nonparametric theory, censoring.
Usually Offered: Fall Semesters, Odd years
Purpose: To expose the student to the basic concepts of reliability models and statistical inference for various probability models and methods used in life testing and reliability assessment, including parametric and nonparametric models, graphical methods, and classical and Bayesian inference procedures.
Current Textbook: Reliability Modelling: A Statistical Approach, Linda C. Wolstenholme, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1999. Supplementary notes are also typically handed out.
Topics Covered | Chapters | Time |
Introduction and Definitions of Reliability | 1 | 0.5 weeks |
Lifetime distributions - Representations and interpretations, continuous and discrete lifetime models, system lifetimes, classes.Parametric Models - Exponential, Weibull, extreme value, gamma, lognormal, etc. |
2 | 1 week |
Reliability of coherent systems - series, parallel, k-out-of-n, pivotal decomposition,
minimum cuts and paths, reliability bounds, etc. |
6 | 1.2 weeks |
Nonparametric Reliability Estimation - Censored data; the Kaplan-Meier - PL estimator. | 3 | 1.3 weeks |
Parametric models and inference based on likelihood methods. | 4, 9 | 1.4 weeks |
Repairable systems. | 5 | 0.3 weeks |
Graphical methods - probability plotting with uncensored and censored data, PL estimator total time on test plots, quantile-quantile plots, Weibull plots. |
3, handouts | 0.8 weeks |
Other topics - Reliability demonstrations tests, Accelerated life tests, Stress-strength models. | 9.3,9.8,9.11,10.3,7.5-7.8 | 0.9 weeks |
Bayesian methods - Review of prior and posterior distributions, loss functions, Bayes estimator of reliability, etc. |
10.8 | 0.6 weeks |
Contact Faculty: Edsel Peña