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Estimating the reliability and distribution of ratio in two independent variables with different distributions

  • Yun, Sang-Un (Department of Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Georgia Southern University) ;
  • Lee, Chang-Soo (Department of Flight Operation, Kyungwoon University)
  • Received : 2012.07.04
  • Accepted : 2012.08.20
  • Published : 2012.09.30
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Abstract

We consider estimations for the reliability in two independent variables with Pareto and uniform or exponential distributions. And then we compare the mean squared errors of two reliability estimators for each case. We also observe the skewness of densities of the ratio for each case.

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