Template:Acb4weib on reliability

Confidence Bounds on Reliability
The reliability function for the Arrhenius-Weibull model (ML estimate) is given by:


 * $$\widehat{R}(T,V)={{e}^{-{{\left( \tfrac{T}{\widehat{C}\cdot {{e}^{\tfrac{\widehat{B}}{V}}}} \right)}^{\widehat{\beta }}}}}$$

or:


 * $$\widehat{R}(T)={{e}^{-{{e}^{\ln \left[ {{\left( \tfrac{T}{\widehat{C}\cdot {{e}^{\tfrac{\widehat{B}}{V}}}} \right)}^{\widehat{\beta }}} \right]}}}}$$

Setting:


 * $$\widehat{u}=\ln \left[ {{\left( \frac{T}{\widehat{C}\cdot {{e}^{\tfrac{\widehat{B}}{V}}}} \right)}^{\widehat{\beta }}} \right]$$

or:


 * $$\widehat{u}=\widehat{\beta }\left[ \ln (T)-\ln (\widehat{C})-\frac{\widehat{B}}{V} \right]$$

The reliability function now becomes:


 * $$\widehat{R}(T,V)={{e}^{-{{e}^{\widehat{u}}}}}$$

The next step is to find the upper and lower bounds on $$\widehat{u}\ \ :$$


 * $${{u}_{U}}=\widehat{u}+{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var(\widehat{u})}$$


 * $${{u}_{L}}=\widehat{u}-{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var(\widehat{u})}$$

where:


 * $$\begin{align}

& Var(\widehat{u})= & {{\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial \beta } \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{\beta })+{{\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial B} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{B})+{{\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial C} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{C}) \\ & & +2\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial \beta } \right)\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial B} \right)Cov(\widehat{\beta },\widehat{B})+2\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial \beta } \right)\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial C} \right)Cov(\widehat{\beta },\widehat{C}) \\ & & +2\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial B} \right)\left( \frac{\partial \widehat{u}}{\partial C} \right)Cov(\widehat{B},\widehat{C}) \end{align}$$

or:


 * $$\begin{align}

& Var(\widehat{u})= & {{\left( \frac{\widehat{u}}{\widehat{\beta }} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{\beta })+{{\left( \frac{\widehat{\beta }}{V} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{B})+{{\left( \frac{\widehat{\beta }}{\widehat{C}} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{C}) \\ & & -\frac{2\widehat{u}}{V}Cov(\widehat{\beta },\widehat{B})-\frac{2\widehat{u}}{\widehat{C}}Cov(\widehat{\beta },\widehat{C})+\frac{2{{\widehat{\beta }}^{2}}}{V\widehat{C}}Cov(\widehat{B},\widehat{C}) \end{align}$$

The upper and lower bounds on reliability are:


 * $$\begin{align}

& {{R}_{U}}(T,V)= & {{e}^{-{{e}^{\left( {{u}_{L}} \right)}}}} \\ & {{R}_{L}}(T,V)= & {{e}^{-{{e}^{\left( {{u}_{U}} \right)}}}} \end{align}$$

where $${{u}_{U}}$$  and  $${{u}_{L}}$$  are estimated from Eqns. (ArreibRupper) and (ArreibRlower).