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Forum: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and AnswersTopic: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers
Topic Posted by: Reliability & Maintainability Forum
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Organization: System Reliability Center
Date Posted: Mon Aug 31 12:47:36 US/Eastern 1998
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Posted by: Sadat
(sadath@nortelnetworks
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Organization:Nortel Networks
Date posted: Wed Apr 14 16:23:25 US/Eastern 2004
Subject: Error Bars on System Downtime Prediction
Message:
I am hoping that someone can help me. I am performing some Markov modeling to derive system downtime. I am supposed to derive error bars on my downtime predictions. I want to know how I can derive these error bars. Do they come from sensitivity analysis by varying for example the in service fault detection parameter in my availability model? I am looking at a system which is composed of many susbsystems that each require Markov modeling. How do I calculate the error bars for total system downtime which is the sum of all subsystems? I'm assuming things like fault detection (varying it from 80 to 95%), Switch over success probability etc.
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Subject: markov chains error bars
Reply Posted by: swami
Organization: sun microsystems
Date Posted: Thu Jul 22 19:55:47 US/Eastern 2004
Message:
1. you can provide ranges or uncertainty distributions for all the rates and run a monte carlo over the system of markovian equations
2. http://www.ee.duke.edu/~kst click on markov chains on the left and you have links to papers on "sensitivity analysis in markov chains" and "importance analysis in markov chains"
swami
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