This paper is concerned with a series of three important problems on reliability where complete solutions are still unavailable. These problems have all been researched and approximate solutions are outlined. The three areas of interest are
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The government requirement of assurance of high reliability of complex items where the cost of sampling is extremely high.
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Confidence intervals for a system in series where component data are available, and
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Estimation of the parameters of the Weibull distribution when sampling terminates after the rth failure is observed in a sample of size n.
