Preliminaries, Definitions, and Use of Order Statistics in Reliability Estimation

In this chapter we provide a survey of basic definitions and associated

mathematics for modeling reliability. Specifically, we discuss

1. Time-to-failure distribution theory, including the introduction of the

use of hazard-rate and cumulative hazard-rate formulas. The definition

of B10 life along with the use of tR notation, denoting the 100*Rth

percentile of the survival distribution, are introduced.