Bayes parameter estimation for the bivariate Weibull model of Marshall-Olkin for censored data (reliability theory)

Industrial applications frequently require statistical procedures to analyze life-test data from various sources, particularly in situations where observations are limited. The author develops a Bayes parameter estimation method for bivariate censored data collected from both system and component levels. The bivariate Weibull distribution of Marshall & Olkin (1967) is used to model lifetimes of components in a two-component system. Closed-form Bayes estimators of the model parameters are proposed along with their variances and high-probability density intervals. >

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