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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
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