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Explicit formula is given for the lifetime distribution of a consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system. It is given as a linear combination of distributions of order statistics of the lifetimes of n components. We assume that the lifetimes are independent and identically distributed. The results should make it possible to treat the parametric estimation problems based on the observations of the lifetimes of the system. In fact, we take up, as some examples, the cases where the lifetimes of the components follow the exponential, the Weibull, and the Pareto distributions, and obtain feasible estimators by moment method. In particular, it is shown that the moment estimator is quite good for the exponential case in the sense that the asymptotic efficiency is close to one.
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This research was partially supported by the ISM Cooperative Research Program (94-ISM-CRP-5).
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Aki, S., Hirano, K. Lifetime distribution and estimation problems of consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems. Ann Inst Stat Math 48, 185–199 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00049298
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