[SystemSafety] Discovery of exponential distribution of hardware faults

[Phil Koopman]

Looks like you can order a print copy of that 1952 paper here, although 
I cannot vouch for how that process might work.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P183.html

Davis, Dolores D., An Analysis of Some Failure Data. Santa Monica, CA: 
RAND Corporation, 1952. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P183.html. Also 
available in print form.


On 11/25/2024 6:31 AM, Derek M Jones wrote:
> All,
>
> The exponential distribution is now the default
> distribution for hardware failure.  This 1958 paper
> looks like it might be at the start of the citation
> tree
> https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/AD0158605
>
> Although this 1952 paper has lots of data and also
> discusses the exponential distribution.
> No paper, yet, behind this link
> https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/AD0422811
>
> Are there earlier papers than these?
>

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Prof. Phil Koopmankoopman at cmu.edu   
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