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123help
January 24th, 2006, 11:39 AM
Hello,
I am a new reliability engineer ( BS Electrical Engineering) with no previous reliability experience. It is a new area of exploration, and I am learning a lot through this website and the discussion forum. I want to pursue this field because it is very interesting and fun.
I have a question and hopefully some body will answer me. how do I calculate the Initial MTBF of the system. I am using the Test - fix-test of the crow extended model. I know there is a formula
gamma function{(1+1/beta)}/(lambda)^1/beta.
what is the gamma function?
There is only limited reference about it on the website.
Please help.
Thanks,

Tarik El-Azzouzi
January 24th, 2006, 05:49 PM
the gamma function is mentioned in
http://www.weibull.com/LifeDataWeb/weibull_statistical_properties.htm