NeuDist (version 1.0.1)

windshield: Service Times of Aircraft Windshields

Description

The windshield data set contains the service times (in years) of 63 aircraft windshields. These data have been widely used in the reliability literature, particularly for illustrating Weibull and related lifetime models.

Usage

data(windshield)

Value

An object of class "numeric".

The vector consists of 63 observed service times (in years), each corresponding to a single aircraft windshield. Each value represents the time elapsed from installation until failure or replacement of a windshield. The dataset is commonly used in reliability engineering and survival analysis to model time-to-failure behavior, study hazard rate shapes, and illustrate Weibull and extended lifetime distributions.

Format

A numeric vector of length 63 giving the service times of aircraft windshields.

Details

This dataset has been extensively analyzed in the context of reliability modeling, including Weibull models, compound lifetime models, and extended distributions such as the Weibull--Lomax distribution. The observations represent the time-to-failure of protective aircraft windshields and serve as a benchmark for demonstrating statistical methods for reliability and survival analysis.

References

Murthy, D. N. P., Xie, M., & Jiang, R. (2004). Weibull Models. Wiley.

Blischke, W. R., & Murthy, D. N. P. (2000). Reliability: Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization. Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(windshield)

# Basic summary of the dataset
summary(windshield)

# Histogram of service times
hist(
  windshield,
  main = "Service Times of Aircraft Windshields",
  xlab = "Service Time (years)",
  col = "lightgray",
  border = "white"
)