Bounds for the mean square error of reliability estimation from gamma distribution in presence of an outlier observation

DOI10.1155/S0161171289000980zbMath0686.62080MaRDI QIDQ1262674

M. E. Ghitany, William Laverty

Publication date: 1989

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/46431

zbMATH Keywords

boundsmeanmean square errorconfluent hypergeometric seriesuniformly minimum variance unbiased estimateunknown scaleoutlier effectoutlier observationprior distribution of beta typereliability of gamma distributionsemi-Bayesian approachUMVU estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Reliability and life testing (62N05)