The Correlation Method for Computer-Aided Statistical Analysis
Giampio Bracchi, Marco Somalvico · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1971
Computer-aided statistical analysis of electronic circuits, designed to predict the effects of component-part variability on circuit performance, provides extremely useful assistance in performing a circuit design. The correlation method, a new computer-oriented technique of statistical analysis, provides precise estimates of performance variability, high speed of computation, and the computation of the distribution laws of circuit performance characteristics at a generic time instant. Thus, the quantitative characteristics of reliability can be predicted as functions of time.