Citation

Erto P, Rapone M. Reliab. Eng. 1984; 7(3): 181-191.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(84)90016-7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper, a new Bayesian approach proposed in a previous work is used to formulate point and interval estimators of shape parameter and reliable life of the two-parameter Weibull model with both parameters unknown. The Jeffreys' non-informative joint prior was also used and the corresponding estimation results were compared with those obtained by the proposed method.

By means of a large Monte Carlo simulation, the proposed estimators are shown to possess good properties when a minimum of prior knowledge actually exists.