IEGR 640 - Reliability

Three hours.
3 Credits

Probabilistic models underlying reliability and life testing analysis. Structural and reliability properties of coherent systems, exact system reliability and approximation, parametric families of life distribution and their characterizing models, homogeneous and non-homogeneous Poisson processes, mixtures of distributions, competing risk and multiple failure mode models, accelerated life testing models, regression and partial likelihood models, types of censoring, multiple failure mode analysis. Inference procedures, including graphical analysis for various parametric models and for complete and censored samples. Applications in engineering, biometry, and actuarial science.