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A family of density functions is considered which contains several life-testing models as specific cases. Uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators are obtained for the positive and negative powers of the parameter, moments and reliability function. These general results provide the estimators for the specific models.
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Chaturvedi, A., Rani, U. Estimation procedures for a family of density functions representing various life-testing models. Metrika 46, 213–219 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02717175
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