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 Publications
   
 Blueprints for Product Reliability
    Reliability Guidelines
    START Sheets
          Accelerated Testing
          Analysis of “One-Shot” Devices
          Anderson-Darling: A Goodness of Fit Test for Small Samples Assumptions
          Application of the Poisson Distribution
          Applying Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) to Build Reliable Software
          Availability
          Censored Data
          Combining Data
          Commercial Off-the-Shelf Equipment and Non-Developmental Items
          Cost As An Independent Variable (CAIV)
          Creating Robust Designs
          Derating
          Design for Maintainability (DFM)
          Developing Reliability Requirements
          Electronic Reliability Prediction
          Empirical Assessment of Normal and Lognormal Distribution Assumptions
          Empirical Assessment of Weibull Distribution
          Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
          Flexible Sustainment
          Impacts on Reliability of Recent Changes in DoD Acquisition Reform Policies
          Kolmogorov-Simirnov: A Goodness of Fit Test for Small Samples
          MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)
          Operating Characteristic (OC) Functions and Acceptance Sampling Plans
          Parts Management Plan
          Performance-Based Requirements (PBRs)
          Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits (PEM's)
          Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
          Reliability Design for Affordability
          Reliability Estimations for the Exponential Life
          Reliability Growth
          Simulation-Based Acquisition (SBA)
          Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution
          Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution
          Statistical Confidence
          Sustained Maintenance Planning
          The Applicability of Markov Analysis Methods to Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety
          The R&M Case - A Reasoned, Auditable Argument Supporting the Contention that a System Satisfies its R&M Requirements
          Understanding Binomial Sequential Testing
          Understanding Series and Parallel Systems Reliability
          Use of Bayesian Techniques for Reliability
   
 The Journals of The Reliability Information Analysis Center
      
 1998
       1999
       2000
         
 1st Quarter
                A Discussion of Software Reliability Modeling Problems
                Tutorial: Testing for MTBF
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          3rd Quarter
                ISO 9000 Takes a New Approach
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       2001
       2002
         
 1st Quarter
          2nd Quarter
                Statistics - A Reliability Engineer's Tool, Not Reliability Engineering
                The Facts About Predicting Software Defects and Reliability
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       2003
         
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          4th Quarter
       2004
         
 1st Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                Multivariable Testing (MVT)
                Petri Nets: An Alternative to Markov Chains
                Raytheon Assessment of PRISM As A Field Failure Prediction Tool
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 2nd Quarter
                A Strategy for Simultaneous Evaluation of Multiple Objectives
                Not All Lessons Learned Systems Are Created Equal
                Product Assurance Capability (PAC) Quantified
                The Reliability Implications of Emerging Human Interface Technologies
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       2005
         
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       2006
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       2010
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