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	การวิเคราะห์แผนภูมิต้นเหตุแห่งความเสียหาย (Fault Tree Analysis - FTA)	การวิเคราะห์ความน่าเชื่อถือทางสถิติ
สาขาวิชา	ความเชื่อถือได้	ความเชื่อถือได้
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1981	1998
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Vesely et al. (US NRC Fault Tree Handbook)	William Meeker & Luis Escobar
ประเภท	Deductive top-down failure analysis	Parametric lifetime modeling
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Vesely, W. E., Goldberg, F. F., Roberts, N. H., & Haasl, D. F. (1981). Fault Tree Handbook (NUREG-0492). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.	Meeker, W. Q., & Escobar, L. A. (1998). Statistical Methods for Reliability Data. Wiley. ISBN: 978-0-471-14328-4
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	FTA, Fault Tree Method, Top-Down Reliability Analysis, Hata Ağacı Analizi	Life Data Analysis, Survival Analysis (Engineering), Time-to-Failure Analysis, Güvenilirlik Analizi
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	3
สรุป	Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a top-down, deductive reliability method that begins with an undesired top-level failure event and systematically traces backward through chains of contributing causes using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR). First formalized by Watson at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1961 and later standardized by Vesely, Goldberg, Roberts, and Haasl in the landmark 1981 NRC Fault Tree Handbook, FTA has become a cornerstone of quantitative risk assessment in nuclear, aerospace, and industrial safety engineering.	Statistical reliability analysis models the time-to-failure of components, systems, or products using parametric lifetime distributions fitted to observed or censored failure data. Formalized comprehensively by William Q. Meeker and Luis A. Escobar in their 1998 Wiley monograph, the framework integrates maximum likelihood estimation, censoring mechanisms, and distributional diagnostics to produce probability-of-failure curves, hazard rates, and quantile estimates that support design, warranty, and maintenance decisions.