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Estimating Outbreak Probabilities of Systems and Components with Masked Data  

박창규 (성균관대학교 기술혁신센터)
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Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering / v.25, no.6, 2002 , pp. 7-11 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper estimates defect and outbreak probabilities of each individual component from some subset of masked data where the exact component causing system failure might be unknown. A system consists of k components that fails whenever there is a defect in at least one of the components. Due to cost and time constraints it is not feasible to learn exactly which components are defective. Because, test procedures ascertain that the defective components belong to some subset of the k components. This phenomenon is termed masking. We describe a, b, c type in which a sample of masked subsets is subjected to intensive failure analysis. This recorded data of a, b, c type enables maximum likelihood estimation of defect probability of each individual component and leads to outbreak of the defective components in future masked failures.
Keywords
masked data; MLE; defect probability;
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