MTR 5-1-014, MATERIAL TEST PROCEDURE: STATISTICAL METHODS OF RELIABILITY DETERMINATION (31-JUL-1969)

MTR 5-1-014, MATERIAL TEST PROCEDURE: STATISTICAL METHODS OF RELIABILITY DETERMINATION (31-JUL-1969)., The increased emphasis placed upon high reliability for Army missile and rocket systems and the need for better collection, analysis, and reporting of success and failure data has made the measurement of reliability that is obtained throughout the Engineering Test Program one of the most important in-dices used to assess missile system capability. Reliability and its companion index, accuracy, determined under various test conditions are two factors whichare relevant in any missile system evaluation. The fundamental purpose of re-tliability is to estimate the probability of the successful performance of an item under specified conditions and to compute the expected value of this probability with a specified confidence for the population of the items considered.