There will be several sources for the course:

Slides and lecture notes will be provided online along the course.

Relevant books for the course will be:

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

Meeker & Escobar: Statistical methods for reliability data. Wiley, 1998.

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.