Courses




Course ID RE 605
Course Life Testing  and Reliability Estimation
Prerequisites None
Contents Point and interval estimation procedure for life time distributions. Testing reliability hypotheses. Bayes methods in  reliability. Design and analysis of life test experiments. Accelerated life testing. Non-parametric methods.
References S.K. Sinha, Reliability and Life Testing, Wiley Eastern Ltd., 1986. K.C. Kapur and L.R. Lamberson, Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley and Sons, 1977. C. Lipson and N.J. Sheth, Statistical Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments, McGraw-Hill Kogakusha Ltd., 1973. N.R. Mann, R.E. Schafer and N.D. Singapurwalla, Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Data, John Wiley and Sons, 1974. H.F. Martz and R.A. Waller, Bayesian Reliability Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 1982.