Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com AMCP 706-196 7-9 NONPARAMETRIC MATHEMATICAL Generally, it is the early failures that MODELS are Important because they show the early part of the failure distribution. If several items are put on test at the same time, the Suppor It is known that the tume scale early part of the Cdf can be estimated from factor is k times worse under certain severe the first few failures, reprdless of the form operating conditions. Then If accelerated of the distributiun. tests are run under those severe conditions, the Cdf of the time-to-failure under usual See for example, pat. 2-2 and 2-5. operating conditions can be estimated In a * rather short time.
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