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| ==Test Design Using Expected Failure Time Plots==
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| One of the new features in Weibull++ 8 is the Expected Failure Time Calculation (EFTC) tool. Given the population size and the failure time distribution <math>F(t) </math>, the EFTC tool estimates the expected value of the nth failure and its confidence interval at any confidence level.
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| The EFTC tool works by first calculating the probability of failure ''F'' as a function of the sample size ''n'' and number of failures ''r''.
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| This function is given by the equation <math> f\left(n,r,CL\right)=\frac{1}{1+\frac{n-r+1}{rF_{2r,2\left(n-r+1\right),1-CL}}} </math> where ''CL'' is the confidence level.
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| For example, given ''n'' = 4, ''r'' = 2 and ''CL'' = 0.5, the median rank for ''F'' is <math> f\left(4,2,0.5\right)=\frac{1}{1+\frac{4-2+1}{2F_{4,2\left(3\right),0.5}}}=0.385728 </math> The 80% 2-sided confidence interval on the probability of failure F is bounded by <math> f\left(4,2,0.1\right)=\frac{1}{1+\frac{4-2+1}{2F_{4,2\left(3\right),0.9}}}=0.142559 </math> and <math> f\left(4,2,0.9\right)=\frac{1}{1+\frac{4-2+1}{2F_{4,2\left(3\right),0.1}}}=0.679539 </math> With the probabilities of failure known, and assuming the failure distribution is exponentially distributed with parameter \(\lambda\,\!\) = 1, the expected times to failure can be calculated.
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| For example, the median time to the second failure is calculated as <math> t=-\frac{ln\left(1-F\right)}{\lambda}=-\frac{1-0.385728}{1}=0.48732 </math> Similarly, the 10th percentile and 90th percentiles of time to failure are calculated as <math> t=-\frac{1-0.142559}{1}=0.153803 </math> and <math> t=-\frac{1-0.679539}{1}=1.137995 </math> The above results can also be seen in Weibull++ as shown below.
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| [[Image:Eftc2.jpg|thumb|center|500px| ]]
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