There will be several sources for the course.

Some of you will already have the book, Rausand & Høyland: System Reliability Theory: Models, Statistical Methods, and Applications, 2nd Edition. Wiley 2004.

Another main source for the lectures will be the book, Meeker & Escobar: Statistical methods for reliability data. Wiley, 1998.

Notes/copies about certain topics will be handed out. Foils from the lectures can be downloaded as pdf-files from this website.

Supplementary reading:

Collett: Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research. 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall/CRC 20003.

For background in basic statistics: Walpole, Myers, Myers and Ye: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Prentice Hall.

For background in stochastic processes: Sheldon M. Ross: Introduction to probability models, Academic Press.