If you have multiple causes of failure, enter a column or columns to evaluate the reliability of the individual failure modes. For more information on failure modes, go to What is a failure mode?.
- Use failure mode columns
- Enter the columns that contain the failure modes. To represent right-censored observations in the failure mode column, use an asterisk (*) for numeric columns or a space for text columns.
- Failure Mode Options
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- Use all failure modes: Include all failure modes in the analysis.
- Use failure modes: Enter the failure modes to include in the analysis. Enclose text values in double quotation marks.
- Eliminate failure modes: Enter the failure modes to exclude from the analysis. Enclose text values in double quotation marks.
- Create right censored observations using
- Use to determine how Minitab will create right-censored observations for other failure modes when data are interval censored.
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- Midpoint of intervals: Select if a failure for any one failure mode causes the experiment to end.
- Right endpoint of intervals: Select if the experiment continues until the right endpoint when a failure in the interval occurs.
