Talk:Perform Life Data Analysis on External Data Source/Notes

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With the Synthesis API, you can leverage the Weibull++ analysis engine to perform life data analysis on an external data source. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the API to create and analyze a data set, and obtain analysis results from the model.

Tutorial: Life Data Analysis
The following example demonstrates how to define and analyze a Weibull++ data set, and use the result to estimate the probability of failure. A discussion of the example follows.

This example uses the following data set:

VB.NET SynthesisAPI Module1 Main WDS WeibullDataSet WDS.AddFailure(16, 1) WDS.AddFailure(34, 1) WDS.AddFailure(53, 1) WDS.AddFailure(75, 1) WDS.AddFailure(93, 1) WDS.AddSuspension(120, 5) WDS.AnalysisSettings.Distribution = WeibullSolverDistribution.Weibull WDS.AnalysisSettings.Parameters = WeibullSolverNumParameters.MS_2Parameter WDS.AnalysisSettings.Analysis = WeibullSolverMethod.RRX WDS.Calculate r Double r = WDS.FittedModel.unreliability(226) MsgBox( & r)

Discussion
The WeibullDataSet class represents a Weibull++ standard folio data sheet. The class contains all the methods and properties that allow you to define a data set and fit a statistical distribution to the data.

WDS WeibullDataSet

The data set can contain failures, suspensions, interval data or free-form data. The following example shows how to use the AddFailure method to define failures and the AddSuspension method to define suspensions.

WDS.AddFailure(16, 1) WDS.AddFailure(34, 1) WDS.AddFailure(53, 1) WDS.AddFailure(75, 1) WDS.AddFailure(93, 1) WDS.AddSuspension(120, 5)

The AnalysisSetting property returns a WeibullAnalysisOptions object, which represents the analysis settings of the data set. In the following example, we use the,   and   properties of the object to specify the life distribution and analysis method.

WDS.AnalysisSettings.Distribution = WeibullSolverDistribution.Weibull WDS.AnalysisSettings.Parameters = WeibullSolverNumParameters.MS_2Parameter WDS.AnalysisSettings.Analysis = WeibullSolverMethod.RRX

Use the Calculate method to analyze the data set. The method returns a message box that shows the estimated parameters of the life distribution, based on the settings specified in the  property.

WDS.Calculate

The  property gets a cModel object that represents the fitted model of the life data analysis. From the model, you can calculate useful metrics such as reliability, failure rate, mean time, etc. In this example, we use the cModel.Unreliability method to calculate for the probability of failure.

r Double r = WDS.FittedModel.unreliability(226) MsgBox( & r)