Design and Analysis of Accelerated Tests for Mission Critical Reliability

This book presents innovative theory and methods for recognizing and handling the more complicated cases often encountered in practice. It integrates a physical understanding of underlying phenomena and the statistical modeling of observation "noise" to provide a single theoretical framework for accelerated testing. The treatment includes general approaches that can be used with various computational software packages and an explicit computing environment in S-PLUS, numerous worked examples, end-of-chapter exercises, and chapter appendices containing technical and theoretical details. Source code written by the authors is included and available for download from the CRC Web site.