The impact by reliability growth in stress intervention for non-metastatic breast cancer through stochastic model

The paper studies the effects of a cognitive-behavioral stress management (CBSM) intervention in order to examine intervention related changes in serum cortisol among breast cancer patients over a 12-month period in women who were undergoing treatment for non metastatic breast cancer. The most widely used traditional reliability growth tracking model and reliability growth projection model are both included as International Standard and National Standard models. These traditional models address reliability growth based on failure modes surfaced during the test. This paper presents an Extended Model that addresses this practical situation and allows for preemptive corrective actions.