Overview

This standard describes the power law model and gives step-by-step directions for its use. There are various models for describing the reliability of repairable items, the power law model being one of the most widely used. This standard provides procedures to estimate the parameters of the power law model and to test the goodness-of-fit of the power law model to data, to provide confidence intervals for the failure intensity and prediction intervals for the length of time to future failures. Some of the procedures can require computer programs, but these are not unduly complex. This standard presents algorithms from which computer programs should be easy to construct. The responsible committee is DKE/UK 132 "Zuverlässigkeit" ("Reliability") of the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies) at DIN and VDE.

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Responsible national committee

DKE/K 132 - Zuverlässigkeit