• DocumentCode
    1349951
  • Title

    A Moments Compiler for Computing Bayes Intervals for Complex Systems

  • Author

    Metler, William A. ; Dietrich, Duane

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Telephone Laboratories #3D320; Middletown-Lincroft Rd.; Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 USA.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1983
  • fDate
    4/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    111
  • Lastpage
    114
  • Abstract
    This paper develops algorithms and computer processable expressions for the practical computation of the moments of system reliability from the moments of the individual components. The linear (de)composition of structures is extended to an hierarchical (de)composition of reliability functions and moments. A computer processable expression of the system structure is presented for defining an arbitrary configuration of any size of multiple series, parallel, complete, and partial k-out-of-n:G modules.
  • Keywords
    Algorithm design and analysis; Equations; Exponential distribution; Hazards; Laboratories; Logic; Maximum likelihood estimation; Reliability theory; Statistical distributions; Telephony; Bayes interval; Computation; Moments compiler;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1983.5221491
  • Filename
    5221491