Chapter 10. Analyzing Reliability Data with SAS

Introduction

This chapter will discuss SAS procedures for analyzing the reliability of non-repairable and repairable units.

Non-repairable units that fail are removed from service and cannot fail again. Typical examples of non-repairable units are memory chips and cell phones. The sample data for non-repairable units is usually right-censored because some of the units have not yet failed at the end of the observation period. Therefore, the observed lifetimes are the times to failure for the units that ...

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