Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare various methods of estimation of P ( X Y ) based on Type-II censored data, where X and Y represent a quality characteristic of interest for two groups. Design/methodology/approach This paper assumes that both X and Y are independently distributed...

This study deals with the classical and Bayesian estimation of the parameters of a k-components load-sharing parallel system model in which each component's lifetime follows Lindley distribution. Initially, the failure rate of each of the k components in the system is h(t,θ1) until the first...

We construct a broad class of generalized Bayes minimax estimators of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution with covariance equal to [sigma]2Ip, with [sigma]2 unknown, and under the invariant loss ||[delta](X)-[theta]||2/[sigma]2. Examples that illustrate the theory are given. Most...

Based on progressively Type-II censored samples, the empirical estimators of reliability performances for Burr XII distribution are researched under LINEX error loss. Firstly, we obtain the Bayes estimators of the reliability performances. Secondly, different from the predecessor, the empirical...

An empirical Bayes pooling method is used to combine and compare estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL). The data come from 40 selected studies published between 1974 and 2002, containing 197 VSL estimates. The estimated composite distribution of empirical Bayes adjusted VSL has a...