The guideline provides an overview of the reliability tests and the statistical procedures used. In particular, the verification of reliability requirements is addressed and the tasks of a statistical analysis in reliability are characterized. VDI 4009 Sheet 2 to Sheet 9 are briefly described. Together with VDI 4008, VDI 4009 is probably the part of the Technical Reliability Manual that contains the most procedures.*www.vdi.de/4009
VDI 4009 Blatt 1-1998 Referenced Document
VDI 4009 Blatt 2-1984 Test distributions and their applications to confidence intervals and statistical tests