It is frequently useful to test, on the basis of life test data, whether or not one is justified in assuming that the underlying distribution of life is exponential. This paper, which appears in two parts, describes a number of graphical and analytical procedures for testing this assumption. Part I of the paper contains descriptions of the mathematical and graphical procedures. Part II contains several worked examples.
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Benjamin Epstein (1960) studied this question.
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