Barlow, Richard E. A Bayesian approach to the analysis of reliability data bases. (English) Zbl 0874.62112 Balakrishnan, N. (ed.), Recent advances in life-testing and reliability: a volume in honor of Alonzo Clifford Cohen jun. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 43-50 (1995). Summary: The report on “Design of reliability data bases for aerospace applications” by R. Cooke et al. [Tech. Rep., Tech. Univ. Delft/Holland (1993)] is a well documented discussion of existing failure data analysis techniques. It also provides new methodology, using empirical subsurvival functions in a novel way to analyze Swedish nuclear power plant data. An “operational Bayesian” approach [M. B. Mendel, Development of Bayesian parametric theory with applications to control. Ph. D. Thesis Opt. Mech. Eng. MIT (1989)] would require a somewhat different methodology. We develop an operational methodology for this problem.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0847.00014]. MSC: 62N05 Reliability and life testing 62F15 Bayesian inference Keywords:operational Bayesian approach PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. E. Barlow}, in: Recent advances in life-testing and reliability: a volume in honor of Alonzo Clifford Cohen jun. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 43--50 (1995; Zbl 0874.62112)