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Reliability and Life Cycle Maintainability

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The theory underlying the development of reliability methods, standards, and objectives, including statistical inference.

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    An example is the Black-Scholes option pricing model.

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Chorafas, D.N. (2013). Reliability and Life Cycle Maintainability. In: Quality Control Applications. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2966-0_7

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