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The New Weibull Handbook
Student Version
The New Weibull Handbook Student’s Version is largely extracted from The New Weibull Handbook covering the basic material for reliability and statistical analysis of life data. The chapter numbers and appendixes have the same designation as in The New Weibull Handbook. It is hoped the student’s handbook with the student’s software will provide an affordable package for reliability and statistics courses students and novices everywhere. To make the Handbook more readable, all heavy mathematics will be found in the appendixes. The format includes much white space for notes and calculations. Case studies are employed to present the methodology. The package includes basic software to do Weibull analysis and predict future failures and malfunctions. The Student software has been upgraded to version 5.0.
 

The New Weibull Handbook
Student Version


Reliability & Statistical Analysis for Predicting Life, Safety,
Failures, and Test Substantiation
by Dr. Robert B. Abernethy

Topics covered include:

  1. An overview of life data analysis
  2. The statistics of Weibull analysis
  3. How to make Weibull plots, step-by-step
  4. Median Rank Plotting Positions and regressions solutions
  5. Interpretation of Weibull plot patterns
  6. Interpreting the Weibull parameters
  7. Goodness of fit
  8. How to make Weibull Probability Paper
  9. Censored or suspended data
  10. Three parameter Weibulls for origin shifts
  11. Forecasting failures in future months and years
  12. Weibayes, the one parameter Weibull, for improved accuracy
  13. Test substantiation of new products with minimum cost
  14. Confidence intervals to measure the statistical uncertainties
  15. Case studies illustrating all of the above

Sample: The cover, preface, and table of contents as a PDF file is available for download.

WinSMITH Weibull Student’s software (WSWS) is included to reduce the drudgery of hand calculations and produce probability plots for the most useful distributions. It is similarly extracted from the SuperSMITH WinSMITH Weibull software thanks to Wes Fulton. A PowerPoint presentation is included on the CD to introduce the software features with case studies:

  1. Median Rank Regression and Maximum Likelihood Solutions
  2. Probability Plots for Weibull 1, 2 and 3 parameter solutions
  3. Probability Plots for Normal, Log Normal and Gumbel Extreme Value Solutions
  4. Up to 60 failures and/or suspensions
  5. Monte Carlo Sampling from the distributions listed above using either random or precise sampling
  6. Confidence Intervals based on the Beta-Binomial solution
  7. Weibayes analysis (1 parameter Weibull)
  8. Failure forecasting for months and years into the future.
  9. The Analysis Report option listing exact values from the plot line and confidence bounds as well as goodness of fit metrics and confidence bounds for parameters. See below.
  10. CDF, PDF, Hazard plots plus suspension histograms are now available in the new upgraded version 5.0 linking to WinSMITH Visual.

The Student Version of The New Weibull Handbook consists of 134 pages of material with a wire spiral binding to allow it to be opened flat for class work. The pricing is specifically reduced to make it available for students on university campuses. Single copies are $75.00, two to three copies at $67.00 each and four or more copies at $50.00 each with shipping and handling $10.00 or less per book. University staff members should E-mail or contact Dr. Bob for special prices for academics.

The 1st edition of The New Weibull Handbook Student Version is now available—shipments begin on December 19, 2005. The cover, preface, and table of contents is also available as a download in PDF format.

Order The New Weibull Handbook Student Version by purchase order, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, or by sending a check to the address shown on the top of this linked page.

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