Estimating the cumulative probability of failure data points to be plotted on Weibull and other probability paper

Abstract

Using both an exact technique and Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the cumulative probability of failure of the ith of n identically stressed samples, it is shown that the approximation F(i,n)=(i-0.3)/(n+0.4) is considerably more accurate than other commonly used approximations. The significance of this in the interpretation of electrical breakdown tests is demonstrated.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>