TITLE:
Estimation of Reliability for Stress-Strength Cascade Model
AUTHORS:
Rohit R. Mutkekar, Surekha B. Munoli
KEYWORDS:
Cascade System, Strength Attenuation Factor, Reliability Modelling, Life Testing Experiment, Estimators of Reliability Function
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Statistics,
Vol.6 No.5,
October
21,
2016
ABSTRACT: The study endeavors to provide statistical
inference for a (1 + 1) cascade system for exponential distribution under joint
effect of stress-strength attenuation factors. Estimators of reliability
function are obtained using Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) and Uniformly
Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator (UMVUE) of the parameters. Asymptotic
distribution of the parameters is also obtained. Comparison between estimators
is made using data obtained through simulation experiment.