In Auburngrads/SMRD: Statistical Methods For Reliability Data

Example 7.1 & 7.2 - Time Between $\alpha$-Particle Emissions

• Background

  • Berkson investigated the time between $\alpha$-particle emissions from the Americurium-241 radioisotope (AM-241)

  • Physics suggests that the interarrival times of $\alpha$ particles emitted from AM-241 are $iid\; EXP(\theta)$

• Data Set Tab

  • The data are $10,220$ observed interarrival times (measured in units of $1/5000$ seconds)

  • The times were "binned" into one of 8 intervals corresponding to the duration between inter-arrivals

  • To illustrate the effect of sample size, random samples of size $n=20, 200,\;\&\;2000$ were drawn from the original data set.

• Figures Tab

  • Figure 7.1 shows the exponential probability plots for the complete data set and each of the random samples

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