Power Approximations for Reliability Test Designs
Reliability tests determine which factors drive system reliability. Often, the reliability or failure time data collected in these tests tend to follow distinctly non- normal distributions and include censored observations. The experimental design should accommodate the skewed nature of the response and allow for censored observations, which occur when systems under test do not fail within the allotted test time. To account for these design and analysis considerations, Monte Carlo simulations are frequently used to evaluate experimental design properties....