Jackknife Estimation for the Reliability function of Weibull Distribution

  • Lee, In-Suk (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kwon, Jae-Soo (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2000.10.31

Abstract

We compare the MLE, UMVUE and Jackknife Estimators for the reliability function of the weibull distribution when the sample size is small.

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