• DocumentCode
    1343711
  • Title

    Minimum Expected Loss Estimators of Reliability and Parameters of Certain Lifetime Distributions

  • Author

    Tummala, V.M.Rao ; Sathe, P.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept of Economics and Management Science; University of Detroit; Detroit, Michigan 48221 USA.
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1978
  • Firstpage
    283
  • Lastpage
    285
  • Abstract
    The estimators of reliability and parameters of certain lifetime distributions which are widely used in reliability, repairability, and maintainability are obtained by using a different form of loss function and minimizing the s-expected loss with respect to the posterior distribution. These estimators are called MELO estimators. The applications, and the comparison between MELO, Bayes, and Maximum likelihood estimators are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Art; Bayesian methods; Life estimation; Lifetime estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Parameter estimation; Reliability theory; Sampling methods; Shape; Weibull distribution; Bayes; Bayesian estimation; Exponential; Gamma; MELO estimator; Maximum likelihood; Weibull;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1978.5220373
  • Filename
    5220373