• DocumentCode
    1354972
  • Title

    A Preliminary Test Estimator of Reliability in a Life-Testing Model

  • Author

    Chiou, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mathematics; East Texas State University; Commerce, Texas 75428 USA.
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1987
  • Firstpage
    408
  • Lastpage
    410
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1987.5222425
  • Filename
    5222425
    • Link To Document
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