• DocumentCode
    1317212
  • Title

    Simultaneous Estimation of Location and Scale Parameters of the Weibull Distribution

  • Author

    Chan, Lai K. ; Cheng, Smiley W. ; Mead, E.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1974
  • Firstpage
    335
  • Lastpage
    341
  • Abstract
    This paper deals with the simultaneous estimation of the location parameter ¿ and the scale parameter ¿ of the Weibull distribution when both are unknown and the shape parameter ¿ is known. The best linear unbiased estimate (BLUE) (¿, ¿) based on a subset of k optimum ordered observations selected from the whole sample is compared with 1) Ogawa´s asymptotically best linear estimate (ABLE) (¿*, ¿*) based on k ordered observations whose ranks are approximated by an asymptotic optimum selection, and 2) the BLUE based on the ranks in 1). Tables facilitating the computation of (¿, ¿) based on k = 3, 4 optimum ordered observations are provided.
  • Keywords
    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Artificial intelligence; Covariance matrix; Materials reliability; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Shape; Statistics; Weibull distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1974.5215298
  • Filename
    5215298