Title :
A Simplified Design Procedure for Life Tests Based on Kullback-Leibler Information
Author :
Ohta, Hiroshi ; Arizono, Ikuo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Industrial Engineering; College of Engineering; University of Osaka Prefecture; Sakai, Osaka 591, JAPAN.
Abstract :
This paper describes a new simple, practical design procedure for life tests based on the Kullback-Leibler Information. We assume that the length of life has an exponential distribution. In the reliability literature, the exponential distribution is the underlying distribution of the length of life.
Keywords :
Exponential distribution; Failure analysis; Information analysis; Information theory; Life testing; Maximum likelihood estimation; Probability distribution; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Fixed-number test plan; Kullback-Leibler information; Life test;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1985.5222195
