IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/stapro/v11y1991i5p411-417.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Theory and counterexamples for confidence limits on system reliability

Author

Listed:
  • Harris, Bernard
  • Soms, Andrew P.

Abstract

The general theory of optimal confidence limits for system reliability based on results of Buehler (1957) and Sudakov and references cited there (1974) is developed. Counterexamples to some results of Sudakov (1974), Winterbottom (1974) and Harris and Soms (1980, 1981) are exhibited. Numerical examples are given for two component series systems which show that the results hold for confidence levels used in practice.

Suggested Citation

  • Harris, Bernard & Soms, Andrew P., 1991. "Theory and counterexamples for confidence limits on system reliability," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 11(5), pages 411-417, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:11:y:1991:i:5:p:411-417
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167-7152(91)90190-3
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lloyd, Chris J., 2005. "Monotonicity of likelihood support bounds for system failure rates," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 91-97, June.
    2. Kabaila, Paul, 2001. "Better Buehler confidence limits," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 52(2), pages 145-154, April.
    3. Kabaila, Paul & Lloyd, Chris J., 2003. "The efficiency of Buehler confidence limits," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 21-28, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:11:y:1991:i:5:p:411-417. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622892/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.