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8.
Assessing Product Reliability
8.2. Assumptions/Prerequisites
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| Models are frequently necessary - but should always be checked | Since reliability models are often used to project (extrapolate) failure rates or MTBF's that are well beyond the range of the reliability data used to fit these models, it is very important to "test" whether the models chosen are consistent with whatever data is available. This section describes several ways of deciding whether models are acceptable. These are: | ||
