Unkle, Richard; Venkataraman, Ray - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 19 (2002) 8/9, pp. 986-997
Historically, reliability of systems has been tracked based on a common assumption that, at the system level, the failure rate follows the exponential distribution, and is therefore assumed to be constant over the useful life of the system. However, this method, while adequate for many purposes,...