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Two measuresofreliability are considered, R(t)= P(X > t) and P = P(X > Y). Estimation and testing procedures are developed for R(t) and P under Type II cesoring and a sampling scheme of Bartholomew (1963). Two types of point estimators are considered (i) uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators (UMVUEs) and (ii) maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs). A new technique of obtaining these estimators is introduced. A comparative study of different methods of estimation is done. Testing procedures are developed for the hypotheses related to different parametric functions.
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Chaturvedi, A., Kang, SB. & Pathak, A. Estimation and testing procedures for the reliability functions of generalized half logistic distribution. J. Korean Stat. Soc. 45, 314–328 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jkss.2015.11.007
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