Approximate Fiducial Bounds for the Reliability of a Series System for Which Each Component has an Exponential Time-to-Fail Distribution
Frank E. Grubbs · Technometrics · 1971
The computation of exact confidence limits on the reliability of systems using sample data on components turns out to be a very involved process or one requiring very extensive Monte Carlo runs on computers. We suggest here a simple, straight-forward procedure for approximating the fiducial probability bounds on the true system reliability which may be used as approximations to confidence bounds for the reliability of a series system for which each component has an exponential time-to-fail distribution.