Statistical Estimation Procedures for the "Burn-In" Process

Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan, Ernest M. Scheuer

ResearchPublished 1966

A consideration of the problem of estimating a decreasing failure-rate function from a censored or truncated sample. A conservative upper confidence bound for the failure rate at the time that the "burn-in" process ends, and the maximum-likelihood estimate of the failure-rate function, are obtained under quite general conditions. The appendix was written by Albert Madansky. (See also RM-4749-NASA.)

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  • Year: 1966
  • Pages: 24
  • Document Number: RM-5109-NASA

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Barlow, Richard E., Frank Proschan, and Ernest M. Scheuer, Statistical Estimation Procedures for the "Burn-In" Process. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1966. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM5109.html.
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