Rejection of the Independence Model

Rejection of the Independence Model
Low Reliability Software Experiments: Knight and Leveson

27 versions of a program subjected to 1,000,000 input cases.
Observed average failure rate per input was 0.0007.
Independence model was rejected at 99% confidence level.
Other researchers have confirmed Knight/Leveson result.

Curator and Responsible NASA Official: Ricky W. Butler
last modified: 10 September 1998 (15:57:28)