So if I had failure rate data, which in theory was independant (for each failure) and normally distributed, but in practice I knew it was probably clustered due to the various users number of items, service, duty and treatment of the parts, I could just submit this as multimodal data and get an idea of the likely distribution?
How would I aplpy a confidence test, or determine an interval for a given confidence, so I could define a likely reliability from the distribution, or would I end up with multiple piecewise intervals maybe?
I have a specific need in mind, but with this I am sort of a the edge of my detailed statistical understanding as it currently is.
So if I had failure rate data, which in theory was independant (for each failure) and normally distributed, but in practice I knew it was probably clustered due to the various users number of items, service, duty and treatment of the parts, I could just submit this as multimodal data and get an idea of the likely distribution?
How would I aplpy a confidence test, or determine an interval for a given confidence, so I could define a likely reliability from the distribution, or would I end up with multiple piecewise intervals maybe?
I have a specific need in mind, but with this I am sort of a the edge of my detailed statistical understanding as it currently is.