Minimum Data Requirements - Discrete Data
For reliability growth data analysis only.
The minimum data requirements for analysis of developmental discrete data are presented next:
| 
                                                             Data Type  | 
                                                        
                                                             Minimum Requirements  | 
                                                        
                                                             Models  | 
                                                    
| 
                                                             Sequential  | 
                                                        
                                                             At least 3 reliability points (this is not equal to the number of data points or failures).  | 
                                                        
                                                             Crow-AMSAA, Standard Gompertz, Lloyd-Lipow, Duane, Logistic  | 
                                                    
| 
                                                             At least 4 reliability points  | 
                                                        
                                                             Modified Gompertz  | 
                                                    |
| 
                                                             Sequential with Mode  | 
                                                        
                                                             At least 3 reliability points (this is not equal to the number of data points or failures).  | 
                                                        
                                                             Standard Gompertz, Lloyd-Lipow, Logistic  | 
                                                    
| 
                                                             At least 4 reliability points  | 
                                                        
                                                             Modified Gompertz  | 
                                                    |
| 
                                                             Grouped per Configuration  | 
                                                        
                                                             At least 3 data entries (configurations).  | 
                                                        
                                                             Crow-AMSAA, Standard Gompertz, Lloyd-Lipow, Duane, Logistic  | 
                                                    
| 
                                                             At least 4 reliability points.  | 
                                                        
                                                             Modified Gompertz  | 
                                                    |
| 
                                                             Mixed Data  | 
                                                        
                                                             At least 3 intervals with at least one failure in each.  | 
                                                        
                                                             Crow-AMSAA  | 
                                                    
| 
                                                             Number of failures in the first interval must be less than the number of units in the interval.  | 
                                                        
                                                             Crow Extended:  |