A valuable reference in life data analysis research Your practical guide to statistical methods for predicting product life and reliability and comparing improvements in product manufacturing, design, and application. Describes the use of graphical methods, the method of maximum likelihood, censored data analysis, linear estimation, prediction methods, and methods for complete, singly censored, multiply censored, interval, and quantalresponse data. Techniques are illustrated with step-by-step, real-data numerical examples. This paperback edition features a new preface and includes a brief survey of commercially available software for the analysis of reliability data.