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Showing 16 results for Reliability
Aref Khanjari Idenak, Mohammadreza Zadkarami, Alireza Daneshkhah,
Volume 8, Issue 2 (3-2015)
Abstract
In this paper a new compounding distribution with increasing, decreasing, bathtub shaped and unimodal hazard rate function is proposed. The new four-parameters distribution is a generalization of the complementary exponential power distribution. The raw-moments, density function of the order statistics, survival function, hazard rate function, quantiles, mean residual lifetime and reliability function are presented. The estimation of the new distribution in a special case Poisson complementary exponential power distribution is studied by the method of maximum likelihood and EM algorithm. Expression for asymptotic distribution for the maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the PCEP distribution are obtained and for determining the precision of the variance and covariance of the estimations, a simulation is used, Then experimental results are illustrated based on the real data set.
Shiva Akhtarian, Tahere Yaghoobi,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (8-2016)
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Given the widespread usage of software systems in all aspects of modern life, the need to produce almost error free and high quality software has become more and more important. Software reliability is considered as an important approach to software quality assessment. Software reliability modeling based on non- homogeneous Poisson process is a quite successful method in software reliability engineering. In this paper, we first study the general growth model of software reliability, and then we extend the general model by considering two types of simple and complex errors, dependency between complex errors and time delay between detecting and removing complex errors. Estimating the model parameters has been done by using two failure data sets of real software projects through MATLAB software. We compare the proposed model with two existing models using various criteria. The results show that the proposed model better fits the data, providing more accurate information about the software quality.
Fatemeh Hooti, Jafar Ahmadi,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (8-2016)
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In this paper, the quantile function is recalled and some reliability measures are rewritten in terms of quantile function. Next, quantile based dynamic cumulative residual entropy is obtained and some of its properties are presented. Then, some characterization results of uniform, exponential and Pareto distributions based on quantile based dynamic cumulative entropy are provided. A simple estimator is also proposed and its performance is studied for exponential distribution. Finally discussion and results are presented.
Shahrokh Hashemi-Bosra, Ebrahim Salehi,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (9-2017)
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The (n-k+1)-out-of-n systems are important types of coherent systems and have many applications in various areas of engineering. In this paper, the general inactivity time of failed components of (n-k+1)-out-of-n system is studied when the system fails at time t>0. First we consider a parallel system including two exchangeable components and then using Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern copula, investigate the behavior of mean inactivity time of failed components of the system. In the next part, (n-k+1)-out-of-n systems with exchangeable components are considered and then, some stochastic ordering properties of the general inactivity time of the systems are presented based on one sample or two samples.
Mohammad Nasirifar, Mohammadreza Akhoond, Mohammadreza Zadkarami,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (2-2020)
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The parameters of reliability for the most family marginal distribution is estimated with the assumption of independence between two component stress and strength, but, unfortunately when these two component are correlated, have been less discussed. Recently, a method based on a copula function for estimating the reliability parameter is proposed under the assumption of correlation between stress and strength components. In this paper, this method is used to estimate the reliability parameter when the distribution of componets is Generalized Exponential (GE). For this purpose FGM, generalized FGM and frank copula function have been used. Then simulation is also used to demonstrate the suitability of the estimates. In the end, reliability parameter for data relative contribution of major groups in terms of age breakdown of the population of urban and rural areas in Iran in the year 1390 will be estimated.
Shahram Yaghoobzadeh,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (8-2020)
Abstract
In this study, the E-Bayesian estimation of the reliability parameter, R = P(Y < X < Z), when X, Y and Z are three independent inverse Rayleigh distribution with different parameters, were estimated based on ranked set sampling method. To assess the efficiency of the obtained estimates, we compute the average absolute bias and relative efficiency of the derived estimates and compare them with those based on the corresponding simple random sample through Monte Carlo simulations. Also, E-Bayesian estimation of R is compared with its maximum likelihood estimation in each method. Finally, three real data sets are used to analyze the estimation methods.
Elham Basiri,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (2-2021)
Abstract
When a system is used, it is often of interest to determine with what probability it will work longer than a pre-fixed time. In other words, determining the reliability of this system is of interest. On the other hand, the reliability of each system depends on the structure and reliability of its components. Therefore, in order to improve the reliability of the system, the reliability of its components should be improved. For this purpose, it is necessary to carry out maintenance operations, which will increase costs. Another way to increase the reliability of systems is to change the location of the components. In this paper, the location of system components and optimal maintenance period are determined by minimizing the costs and maximizing the reliability of a series-parallel system. Finally, a numerical example is presented to evaluate the results in the paper.
Reza Zarei, ,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (2-2021)
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In this paper, the Bayesian and empirical Bayesian approaches studied in estimate the multicomponent stress–strength reliability model when the strength and stress variables have a generalized Rayleigh distribution with different shape parameters and identical scale parameter. The Bayesian, empirical Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation of reliability function is obtained in the two cases known and unknown of scale parameter under the mean squared error loss function. Then, these estimators are compared empirically using Monte Carlo simulation and two real data sets.
Majid Chahkandi, Jalal Etminan, Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (9-2021)
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Redundancy and reduction are two main methods for improving system reliability. In a redundancy method, system reliability can be improved by adding extra components to some original components of the system. In a reduction method, system reliability increases by reducing the failure rate at all or some components of the system. Using the concept of reliability equivalence factors, this paper investigates equivalence between the reduction and redundancy methods. A closed formula is obtained for computing the survival equivalence factor. This factor determines the amount of reduction in the failure rate of a system component(s) to reach the reliability of the same system when it is improved. The effect of component importance measure is also studied in our derivations.
Jalal Etminan, Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh, Maid Chahkandi,
Volume 16, Issue 2 (3-2023)
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This paper considers series and parallel systems with independent and identically distributed component lifetimes. The reliability of these systems can be improved by using the reduction method. In the reduction method, system reliability is increased by reducing the failure rates of some of its components by a factor 0<ρ<1, called the equivalent reliability factor. Closed formulas are obtained for some reliability equivalence factors. In comparisons among the performance of the systems, these factors are helpful. We discuss that the reduction method can be considered as a particular case of the proportional hazard rates (PHR) model. Sufficient conditions for the relative aging comparison of the improved series and parallel systems under the PHR model and reduction method are also developed.
Mr. Ali Rostami, Dr. Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh, Dr. Mohammad Khorashadizadeh,
Volume 16, Issue 2 (3-2023)
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In this article, we consider the estimation of R{r,k}= P(X{r:n1} < Y{k:n2}), when the stress X and strength Y are two independent random variables from inverse Exponential distributions with unknown different scale parameters. R{r,k} is estimated using the maximum likelihood estimation method, and also, the asymptotic confidence interval is obtained. Simulation studies and the performance of this model for two real data sets are presented.
Shahrastani Shahram Yaghoobzadeh,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (9-2023)
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In this article, it is assumed that the arrival rate of customers to the queuing system M/M/c has an exponential distribution with parameter $lambda$ and the service rate of customers has an exponential distribution with parameter $mu$ and is independent of the arrive rate. It is also assumed that the system is active until time T. Under this stopping time, maximum likelihood estimation and bayesian estimation under general entropy loss functions and weighted error square, as well as under-informed and uninformed prior distributions, the system traffic intensity parameter M/M/c and system stationarity probability are obtained. Then the obtained estimators are compared by Monte Carlo simulation and a numerical example to determine the most suitable estimator.
Ali Rostami, Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh, Mohammad Khorashadizadeh,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (9-2023)
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This article considers the stress-strength reliability of a coherent system in the state of stress at the component level. The coherent series, parallel and radar systems are investigated. For 2-component series or parallel systems and radar systems, this reliability based on Exponential distribution is estimated by maximum likelihood, uniformly minimum variance unbiased and Bayes methods. Also, simulation studies have been done to check estimators' performance, and real data are analyzed.
Fateme Sadat Mirsadooghi, Akram Kohansal,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (2-2024)
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In this paper, under adaptive hybrid progressive censoring samples, Bayes estimation of the multi-component reliability, with the non-identical-component strengths, in unit generalized Gompertz distribution is considered. This problem is solved in three cases. In the first case, strengths and stress variables are assumed to have unknown, uncommon parameters. In the second case, it is assumed that strengths and stress variables have two common and one uncommon parameter, so all of these parameters are unknown. In the third case, it is assumed that strengths and stress variables have two known common parameters and one unknown uncommon parameter. In each of these cases, Bayes estimation of the multi-component reliability, with the non-identical-component strengths, is obtained with different methods. Finally, different estimations are compared using the Monte Carlo simulation, and the results are implemented on one real data set.
Miss. Mahdieh Mozafari, Dr. Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh, Dr. Mohammad Ghasem Akbari, Dr. Gholamreza Hesamian,
Volume 18, Issue 1 (8-2024)
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In this paper, fuzzy order statistics are expressed based on the concept of α-value, and some of its applications in reliability have been examined. For this purpose, if the lifetime distribution of the system components is known, some of the reliability criteria of the $i$th order statistic using the definition of a fuzzy random variable based on the α-value have been investigated. Also, if the lifetime distribution of the components is unknown or only the fuzzy observations of the lifetime of the components are available, the empirical distribution function of the fuzzy data is used to estimate the reliability based on ordinal statistics, and examples are provided to illustrate the results.
Mohammad Shafaei Noughabi, Mohammad Khorashadizade,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (9-2025)
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This article introduces a new extension of the log-logistic distribution, and its properties and parameter estimation are studied and analyzed. It is shown that adding a parameter to this distribution makes its shape more symmetric and less skewed as the parameter increases. Unlike the original distribution, the moments of the new distribution and its quantile function always exist. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the reliability measures, such as the hazard rate function, the mean residual life function, and stochastic orderings, are more flexible in the new distribution. Additionally, the parameters of the distribution are estimated using the LLP and ML methods, and the efficiency and consistency of the estimators are evaluated through simulation studies. Finally, the practical applicability of the model is demonstrated by applying the new model to real-world data from airborne equipment and lung cancer patients.
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