Notice of RetractionA fusion method of zero-failure data in different environments for reliability assessment of success-failure type products

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Environmental factor, as an important parameter in reliability assessment, has been an important issue in the reliability engineering research. The definition of environmental factor for success-failure type data is the unreliability ratio of products between two different environments. When the experimental data obtained were zero-failure data, the value of denominator would be zero when using the environmental factor in data fusion calculating, at this situation, the environmental factor is Incalculable. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a method that converting the zero-failure data to equivalent failure data before data fusion and reliability assessment. And then, the computational analysis of example verified the feasibility of this method.