POINT ESTIMATION OF RELIABILITY OF A SYSTEM COMPRISED OF k ELEMENTS FROM THE SAME EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION.

Authors :: Rutemiller, Herbert C.
Source :: Journal of the American Statistical Association. Dec66, Vol. 61 Issue 316, p1029. 4p.
Publication Year :: 1966
Abstract: Minimum variance unbiased estimators of reliability are developed for a series, parallel, and standby redundant system where the components are from a single exponentially distributed population. It is assumed that sampling information has been censored with respect to number of failures or test time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects :: *ESTIMATION theory
*DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
*VARIANCES
*STATISTICAL sampling
*STATISTICS
*PARAMETERS (Statistics)
*EXPONENTIAL sums
*CENSUS

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