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Forum: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers

Topic: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers

Topic Posted by: Reliability & Maintainability Forum (src_forum@alionscience.com )
Organization: System Reliability Center
Date Posted: Mon Aug 31 12:47:36 US/Eastern 1998

Original Message:

Posted by: Sadat
Date posted: Thu Aug 11 14:51:57 US/Eastern 2005
Subject: Confidence Bounds on Availability
Message:
How can I calculate confidence bounds on my system availability predictions?

Reply:

Subject: Ao Confidence Bounds
Reply Posted by: Joe Dzekevich
Date Posted: Fri Aug 12 16:01:53 US/Eastern 2005
Message:
One way to put confidence bounds on availability is to solve the problem using Monte Carlo simulation instead of exact equations. Using Monte Carlo simulation will allow you to construct an availability histogram from repeated runs. Joe