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Quality Improvement Papers
Reliability Data Analysis in the SAS System
Gordon Johnston, SUGI Proceedings, 1997
Abstract
The RELIABILITY procedure, a recent addition to SAS/QC® software, provides tools for reliability and survival data analysis as well as for recurrence data analysis. You can use this procedure to do the following:
- construct probability plots and fit life distributions with right and interval censored lifetime data
- fit regression models, including accelerated life test models, to combinations of right, left, and interval censored data
- analyze recurrence data from repairable systems
These tools benefit reliability engineers and industrial statisticians working with product life data and system repair data. They also aid workers in other fields, such as medical research, pharmaceuticals, social sciences, and business, where survival and recurrence data are analyzed.
