Estimation of the Block and Basu model for system level life testing with censored data

  • Jeong, In-Ho (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Cho, Kil-Ho (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Cho, Jang-Sik (Department of Informational Statistics, Kyungsung University)
  • Published : 2009.09.30

Abstract

We consider a life testing experiment in which several two component shared parallel system are put on test, and the test is terminated at a specified number of system failures. The bivariate data obtained from such a system level life testing can be classified into three classes: (1) the case of failed two components with known failure times, (2) the case of one censored component and the other failed component of which the failure time might be known or unknown, (3) the case of censored two components. In this thesis, the maximum likelihood estimators of parameters for Block and Basu bivariate exponential distribution under above censoring scheme are obtained. And the results of comparative studies are presented.

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