Statistical Methods for Reliability Data

William Q. Meeker, Luis A. Escobar0471143286, 9780471143284, 9780585317243

Explains computer-based statistical methods for reliability data analysis and test planning for industrial products. Demonstrates how to apply the latest graphical, numerical, and simulation-based methods to a broad range of models found in reliability data analysis, and covers areas such as analyzing degradation data, simulation methods used to complement large-sample asymptotic theory, and data analysis computed with the S-PLUS system. Includes chapter exercises using real data sets. For professionals in product reliability and design, and for graduate students in courses in applied reliability data analysis.