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Activity Number: 105
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #302452
Title: Finite-Sample Properties of a System Reliability Estimator Under Imperfect Debugging
Author(s): Marcus Agustin*+ and Zenia Agustin
Companies: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Edwardsville, IL, 62026,
Keywords: counting processes ; software reliability
Abstract:

We will consider a system of components where the failure of each component depends on the number of defects in the system and the failure rate contribution of each defect. The number of defects changes dynamically since removal of a defect may result in new defects being introduced to the system. The system is observed for a fixed time period and the main interest is to obtain an estimator of the system reliability at the end of the observation period. The finite-sample properties of the resulting estimator will be evaluated using a simulation study.

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