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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Correction - and I still don't quarantee anything about this<br>
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If the failure rate is 3/100 = p, then the standard deviation would be </span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">sqrt(npq) = sqrt(n f/n (n-f)/n<b>) = sqrt(n</b>*f*(n-f))/n ~= n sqrt(f) / n for small f = sqrt(f), in your case sqrt(3) ~= 1.4</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">The question about "how many" was a military secret in one of the WW. The answer is YOU DONT fix the sample size in advance. Instead you sample one at a time and watch the numbers,
and stop sampling after the fails gets low enough or high enough, thereby saving unnecessary sampling</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">I don't know the details, but I suspect you are asking is for f + sqrt(f)*2 to become acceptably low, and stop if f - 2 sqrt(f) is too high<br>
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<a href="https://www.weibull.com/pubs/2015_RAMS_right_sample_size.pdf" id="LPlnk">https://www.weibull.com/pubs/2015_RAMS_right_sample_size.pdf</a> seems to be in the right ballpark<br>
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/Bevin<br>
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