Title :
A Preliminary Test Estimator of Reliability in a Life-Testing Model
Author_Institution :
Department of Mathematics; East Texas State University; Commerce, Texas 75428 USA.
Abstract :
This paper proposes a preliminary test estimator for the reliability of an exponential life-testing model. The optimum critical values for preliminary test and their corresponding levels of significance are obtained based on a minimax regret function.
Keywords :
Business; Error analysis; Life estimation; Life testing; Mean square error methods; Minimax techniques; Reliability theory; State estimation; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Bias; Exponential distribution; Mean square error; Minimax regret function; Preliminary test estimator; Type II censored sample;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1987.5222425
