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Old 08-05-2005, 03:03 PM
tylerdurden tylerdurden is offline
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Default Re: reliability (no poker content)

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I think your method underestimates the number of overlaps because it implies that failures start exactly on a three hour boundary.

Here is a second method for estimating the number of overlaps. Suppose there are exactly 400 failures. We will say that the ith failure and the jth failure overlap if their start times differ by 6 hours or less.

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I think you're onto something (I see the point about starting exactly on a three hour boundary), but I think your remedy is off-base. If the start times are more than three hours apart they don't overlap. For our purposes we can assume the variance on the repair length is zero, and that all failures always take exactly three hours to fix.
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