A Note on a New Two-Parameter Lifetime Distribution with Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rate Function

  • Wang, F.K. (Department of Business Administration Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
  • Published : 2002.03.01

Abstract

This paper presents the methodology for obtaining point and interval estimating of the parameters of a new two-parameter distribution with multiple-censored and singly censored data (Type-I censoring or Type-II censoring) as well as complete data, using the maximum likelihood method. The basis is the likelihood expression for multiple-censored data. Furthermore, this model can be extended to a three-parameter distribution that is added a scale parameter. Then, the parameter estimation can be obtained by the graphical estimation on probability plot.

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