Accendo Reliability

Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site

Home

by Leave a Comment

Censored data

« Back to Glossary Index
Decision Type:
Method Category:
Categories: Terms

A set of data that has partially known information. For life or measurement data, left censored means we do not know when the item was placed into service or started in the test; interval censored means we do not know exactly when an item fails, for example, since the observations are done periodically; right censored means as of the last observation the item has not failed thus we do not know when it will fail.

Synonyms:
censored life data, censored time-to-failure data
Related Articles:
  • Nevada chart
    A way to organize field return data that captures the time-to-failure and censored data. A Nevada charts uses sales and returns and organizes the count of returns by which month or week of sales it originated and when the return was reported or arrived. This convenient ongoing chart enables one to tally returns as they arrive while preserving the necessary information for analysis.
« Back to Glossary Index

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *