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Survival analysis and reliability are often treated as separate disciplines, each with its own terminology and literature. But both involve the breakdown of items over time, although survival analysis deals with individuals (e.g., AIDS patients) and reliability with things (e.g., light bulbs, disk drives).
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Good, P.I. (1999). Survival Analysis and Reliability. In: Resampling Methods. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3049-4_11
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