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Reliability Analysis and Risk Evaluator (RARE) is a software supplement to the "Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis" book available from Taylor & Francis.  Click here for a free copy of one of the eight RARE modules. 

bulletRARE is a powerful yet simple tool to analyze a variety of reliability data.
bulletWritten in MS Visual Basic, RARE has a friendly user interface, and is run with a popular MS Excel spreadsheet.
bulletRARE can be obtained together with or separately from the book.

RARE features the following modules:

 
Goodness of Fit Test

 

The program performes the Chi-Square and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests to verify if a given sample is from a hypothesized parametric distribution including exponential, normal, lognormal, Weibull and Poisson distributions.

 
Nonparameteric Estimation

 

The program demonstrates nonparameteric estimation procedures of life data.

 
Sample Size Estimation

 

The program demonstrates a sample size estimation procedure used in nonparameteric reliability analysis.

 
Distribution Estimation

 

The program demonstrates the Maximum Likelihood and Probability Paper methods of parameter estimation for some popular distributions including exponential, normal, lognormal and Weibull.

 
Exponential Distribution Estimation

 

The program demonstrates classical estimation of the exponential distribution based on type I and II life test data with and without replacement.

 
Interval Estimation

 

The program demonstrates interval estimation for the binomial distribution parameter, unknown CDF at a fixed exposure, as well as normal and lognormal distribution parameters.

 
Bayesian Estimation

 

The program demonstrates the Bayesian estimation procedures for binomial and Poisson distributions using conjugate and non-conjugate prior distributions including beta, gamma, uniform, normal and lognormal.

 
Repairable System Analysis

 

The program demonstrates estimation procedures used in recurrent event data analysis (Homogeneous and Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes as well as Reliability Growth modeling).

 

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