Question

A program is seeded with 30 faults. During testing, 21 faults are detected, 15 of which are seeded faults and 6 of which are indigenous faults. What is the Mill's estimate of the number of indigenous faults remaining undetected in the program?

Answer 1

Answer:

Estimated number of indigenous faults remaining undetected is 6

Explanation:

The maximum likelihood estimate of indigenous faults is given by,

$N_F=n_F\times \frac{N_S}{n_S}$ here,

$n_F$ = the number of unseeded faults = 6

$N_S$ = number of seeded faults = 30

$n_s$ = number of seeded faults found = 15

So NF will be calculated as,

$N_F=6\times \frac{30}{15}=12$

And the estimate of faults remaining is  $N_F-n_F$ = 12 - 6 = 6