Examine the Same Distribution across Groups

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Reliability and Survival Methods • Life Distribution • Additional Examples of the Life Distribution Platform • Examine the Same Distribution across Groups

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Examine the Same Distribution across Groups

Suppose you want to compare the same distribution across different groups. You want to examine estimates of failure probabilities for a single type of capacitor operating at three different temperatures.

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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Reliability/Capacitor ALT.jmp.

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Select Analyze > Reliability and Survival > Life Distribution.

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Click the Compare Groups tab.

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Select Hours and click Y, Time to Event.

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Select Temperature and click Grouping.

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Select Censor and click Censor.

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Select Freq and click Freq.

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Figure 2.16 Compare Distribution for Groups

The default graph shows the nonparametric estimates. At a higher temperature, the capacitor has a higher probability of failure. You want to try fitting a parametric distribution.

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Select Weibull for Distribution and Scale.

Figure 2.17 Compare Weibull Distribution for Groups

When plotted against a Weibull probability scale, the points come close to following three lines. This indicates that a Weibull distribution provides a reasonable fit for each of the Temperature groups.

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Help created on 10/11/2018