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Assessing (Software) Reliability Growth Using a Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process and Its Ramifications

  • Nozer D. Singpurwalla
  • , Refik Soyer

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Abstract

In this paper we motivate a random coefficient autoregressive process of order 1 for describing reliability growth or decay. We introduce several ramifications of this process, some of which reduce it to a Kalman Filter model. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach by applying these processes to some real life data on software failures. Finally, we make a pairwise comparison of the models in terms of the ratio of likelihoods of their predictive distributions, and identify the “best” model. Copyright © 1985 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1456-1464
JournalIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
VolumeSE-11
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 1985
Externally publishedYes

Research Keywords

  • Dynamic linear and nonlinear models
  • Kalman Filtering
  • likelihood ratios
  • predictive distributions
  • prequential analysis
  • random coefficient autoregressive processes
  • reliability growth
  • software reliability

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