| Article ID: | iaor20123980 |
| Volume: | 82 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page Number: | 1383 |
| End Page Number: | 1395 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
| Journal: | Mathematics and Computers in Simulation |
| Authors: | Wang Liang, Shi Yimin |
| Keywords: | simulation: applications |
Based on a new life test plan called a progressive first‐failure‐censoring scheme, the estimation problem of the reliability performances is considered for a semi‐parameter class of distributions by using Bayes and non‐Bayes methods. In order to investigate the accuracy of estimation, an illustrative example is examined numerically by means of Monte‐Carlo simulation.