Title :
Estimation of the Parameters of the Weibull Distribution from Multicensored Samples
Author :
Ringer, Larry J. ; Sprinkle, Edgar E., III
Author_Institution :
Institute of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex.
Abstract :
Monte Carlo simulations are used to investigate the maximum likelihood estimators for the parameters of the Weibull distribution using multicensored samples. For the case of unequal number of items censored, a single situation is considered. When the same number of items are removed at each test, several different estimators are compared for several values of the parameters.
Keywords :
Distribution functions; Equations; Estimation theory; Maximum likelihood estimation; Parameter estimation; Probability density function; Random variables; Sampling methods; Testing; Weibull distribution;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1972.5216171
