The significance level; to calculate a 100(1-\(\alpha\))% lower confidence bound.
MonteCarlo
Number of samples to draw from the posterior distribution for the Monte Carlo estimate.
f.star
The number of psuedo-failures to use for a component that exhibits zero observed
failures. The default value is from the log-gamma procedure proposed by Gatliffe (1976), and
is the value used by Rice and Moore.