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
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Posted by: Andrew Rowland (darowland@aep.com )
Date posted: Mon Nov 4 11:20:38 US/Eastern 2002
Subject: Weibull Analysis Results
Message:
I am analyzing field failure data of an electronic system. When performing a Weibull analysis, I find a beta of 0.952 with 19 samples. The source of information is only accurate to the day (i.e., I only know what date a failure occurred, not exact time), so I expected some error from this. Given the age of the equipment being analyzed, it would be expected to be operating within it's useful life. How far from 1.00 does the beta need to be before I would be wrong in using an exponential distribution? How much error can I expect due to the time reporting limitations of my data source?

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