Abstract In the area of stress-strength models, there has been a large amount of work regarding the estimation of the reliability {R=\Pr(XY)} . The algebraic form for {R=\Pr(XY)} has been worked out for the vast majority of the well-known distributions when X and Y are independent random...

The Weibull distribution has found extensive applications in a variety of engineering, science and business problems. A journal survey indicated that it is the third most often used distribution in the statistical literature. To use it, one must best estimate its parameters from a given sample....