Greg;
I apologise for being unclear in my original post. My problem is that when asked to specify how many items should be tested, to generate 95% Reliabiltiy @ 50% Confidence, (as an example,) I can quote a number from various calculators or graphs, but cannot justify the number with the...
I too am in the situation you describe.There is a website called "alionscience.com" which has a calculator for "one-shot devices" that calculates any one of sample size, reliability, confidence and number of failures. (Tell it any three, and it will calculate the fourth.) There is also a good...
