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                                    6:  Relaxation of the
                                    common failure r-ate
                             assumption in modelling
                                      software reliability


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                                                      T  Giammo

                                       Information Management and
                                               Technology Division
                                      US General Accounting Office
                                                   Washington  DC
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                             A theorem recently published by Lindsay
                             'furnishes the conditions for solving
                             maximum   likelihood formulations which
                             seek to find a maximising distribution of
                             some  parameter  without  placing any
                             restriction on the distribution other tian
                             that it be a legitimate probability distrihn-
                             tion. Reliance on this theorem in the
                             context of the Jelinski/Moranda approach
                             to the estimation of softw-arc reliabilih,
                             permis  the formnl'ition to be evi. ca,
                             replacing the assumption that each faull ;s
                             equally likely to cause a failure with the
                             less limiting assumption that each fault
                             possesses its own potentially unique failure
                             rate parameter chosen from some probab-
                             ility distribution common to all the faults.
                             This paper introduces Lindsay's theorem
                             and illustrates its use by applying it to
                             Jelinski's and Moranda's original soft-
                             ware reliability model.




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