Template:Eyring-log cb on time

Confidence Bounds on Time
The bounds around time for a given lognormal percentile (unreliability) are estimated by first solving the reliability equation with respect to time as follows:


 * $${T}'(V;\widehat{A},\widehat{B},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_})=-\ln (V)-\widehat{A}+\frac{\widehat{B}}{V}+z\cdot {{\widehat{\sigma }}_}$$


 * where:


 * $$\begin{align}

& {T}'(V;\widehat{A},\widehat{B},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_})= & \ln (T) \\ & z= & {{\Phi }^{-1}}\left[ F({T}') \right] \end{align}$$


 * and:


 * $$\Phi (z)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }}\mathop{}_{-\infty }^{z({T}')}{{e}^{-\tfrac{1}{2}{{z}^{2}}}}dz$$

The next step is to calculate the variance of $${T}'(V;\widehat{A},\widehat{B},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_}):$$


 * $$\begin{align}

& Var({T}')= & {{\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial A} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{A})+{{\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial B} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{B})+{{\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial {{\sigma }_}} \right)}^{2}}Var({{\widehat{\sigma }}_}) \\ & & +2\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial A} \right)\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial B} \right)Cov\left( \widehat{A},\widehat{B} \right) \\ & & +2\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial A} \right)\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial {{\sigma }_}} \right)Cov\left( \widehat{A},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_} \right) \\ & & +2\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial B} \right)\left( \frac{\partial {T}'}{\partial {{\sigma }_}} \right)Cov\left( \widehat{B},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_} \right) \end{align}$$


 * or:


 * $$\begin{align}

& Var({T}')= & Var(\widehat{A})+\frac{1}{V}Var(\widehat{B})+{{\widehat{z}}^{2}}Var({{\widehat{\sigma }}_}) \\ & & -\frac{2}{V}Cov\left( \widehat{A},\widehat{B} \right) \\ & & -2\widehat{z}Cov\left( \widehat{A},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_} \right) \\ & & +\frac{2\widehat{z}}{V}Cov\left( \widehat{B},{{\widehat{\sigma }}_} \right) \end{align}$$

The upper and lower bounds are then found by:


 * $$\begin{align}

& T_{U}^{\prime }= & \ln {{T}_{U}}={T}'+{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var({T}')} \\ & T_{L}^{\prime }= & \ln {{T}_{L}}={T}'-{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var({T}')} \end{align}$$

Solving for $${{T}_{U}}$$  and  $${{T}_{L}}$$  yields:


 * $$\begin{align}

& {{T}_{U}}= & {{e}^{T_{U}^{\prime }}}\text{ (Upper bound)} \\ & {{T}_{L}}= & {{e}^{T_{L}^{\prime }}}\text{ (Lower bound)} \end{align}$$