Fitting Lifetime Data to a Weibull Model

Reliability analysis (or survival analysis) is a branch of statistics that deals with death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical or electronics systems, which may be within a localized test time. This topic is called reliability theory or reliability analysis in engineering, and duration analysis or duration modeling in economics or sociology.

This Demonstration shows how to analyze lifetime test data from data-fitting to a Weibull distribution function plot. The data fit is on a log-log plot using a least-squares fitting method. The results are presented as Weibull distribution CDF and PDF plots.