Title :
Comment on: Reliability Prediction
Author_Institution :
11614 SE 49 St, Bellevue, Washington 98006 USA.
Abstract :
This correspondence comments on inadequacies in an editorial, ``Reliability Prediction´´, and treats an important related topic, the erroneous assumption of statistical independence in many reliability predictions and analyses.
Keywords :
Fault trees; Probability; Reliability engineering; Risk analysis; Risk management; Stochastic processes; Stochastic systems; Weather forecasting; Conditional probability; Event tree; Event-sequence analysis; Fault tree; Reliability prediction; Risk assessment; Statistical dependence;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1985.5222246
