Empirical Bayes Reliability Estimation without First Approximating the Proior

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Dep. of Mathematics, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt .

Abstract

An estimate of the reliability function is obtained with the underlying exponential life model. The empirical Bayes approach used here, assumes a square error loss and no knowledge of the prior distribution except that it belongs to a class of distributions defined on the positive half of the real line.