THE MINIMUM VARIANCE UNBIASED ESTIMATION OF SYSTEM RELIABILITY

  • Park, C.J. (San Diego State University, SNU-AID Graduate Basic Science Program) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Joo (Department of Computer Sciences and Statistics, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 1978.06.30

Abstract

We obtain the minimum variance unbiased estimate of system reliability when a system consists of n components whose life times are assumed to be independent and identically distributed either negative exponential or geometric random variables. For the case of a negative exponential life time, we obtain the minimum variance unbiased estimate of the probability density function of the i-th order statistic.

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