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Incorporating Component and System Test Data into the Same Assessment: A Bayesian Approach

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  • David V. Mastran

    (Maximus, Inc., Great Falls, Virginia)

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On occasion, reliability analysts have test data gathered both at the component level of a multicomponent system and at the system level. When the system test data provide no information on component performance, classical statistical techniques in all but trivial cases do not allow using both sets of data. We present a Bayesian procedure that does allow using both sets. The procedure for attribute data makes use of a lemma that relates the moments of the prior and posterior distributions of reliability to the test data. The procedure for variables data assumes the time to failure distribution of each component is exponential.

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  • David V. Mastran, 1976. "Incorporating Component and System Test Data into the Same Assessment: A Bayesian Approach," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 24(3), pages 491-499, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:24:y:1976:i:3:p:491-499
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.24.3.491
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    1. Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Roy Cerqueti & Jessica Riccioni, 2023. "Rational expectations as a tool for predicting failure of weighted k-out-of-n reliability systems," Post-Print hal-03634370, HAL.
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    8. Jørgen Vitting Andersen & Roy Cerqueti & Jessica Riccioni, 2023. "Rational expectations as a tool for predicting failure of weighted k-out-of-n reliability systems," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-03634370, HAL.
    9. Roger Zoh & Alyson Wilson & Scott Vander Wiel & Earl Lawrence, 2018. "The negative log-gamma prior distribution for Bayesian assessment of system reliability," Journal of Risk and Reliability, , vol. 232(3), pages 308-319, June.

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