I.S. EN 61164:2004

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Symbols
5 Reliability growth models in design and test
6 Reliability growth models used for systems/products
  in design phase
  6.1 Modified power law model for planning of reliability
      growth in product design phase
  6.2 Modified Bayesian IBM-Rosner model for planning
      reliability growth in design phase
7 Reliability growth planning a tracking in the product
  reliability growth testing
  7.1 Continuous reliability growth models
  7.2 Discrete reliability growth model
8 Use of the power law model in planning reliability
  improvement test programmes
9 Statistical test and estimation procedures for continuous
  power law model
  9.1 Overview
  9.2 Growth tests and parameter estimation
  9.3 Goodness-of-fit tests
  9.4 Confidence intervals on the shape parameter
  9.5 Confidence intervals on current MTBF
  9.6 Projection technique
Annex A (informative) Examples for planning and analytical
        models used in design and test phase of product
        development
Annex B (informative) The power law reliability growth model
        - Background information
Bibliography

Provides models and numerical methods for reliability growth assessments based on failure data, which were generated in a reliability improvement programme. These procedures deal with growth, estimation, confidence intervals for product reliability and goodness-of-fit tests.