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.

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.