Accession Number:

AD0653575

Title:

RESULTS ON LOCATION AND SCALE PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH APPLICATION TO THE EXTREME-VALUE DISTRIBUTION

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ROCKETDYNE CANOGA PARK CA

Personal Author(s):

• Mann, Nancy R.

Report Date:

1967-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

187.0

Abstract:

The report gives results concerning estimation of location and scale parameters. Most of the work pertains to the first extreme-value distribution of smallest values, the distribution of the natural logarithms of failure times having the two-parameter Weibull distribution. Experimental designs are derived, under the assumption that log failure times are polynomial functions of the reciprocal of stress level and have the extreme-value distribution, for over-stress life tests. These designs yield least-squares curves with minimum variance at a specified nominal stress level below the levels at which the life test is conducted. An estimate of the extreme-value location parameter u associated with the nominal stress level and the relationship between u and stress level can be obtained from the least squares curve. Other extreme-value results apply to a life test conducted at a single fixed stress level.

Descriptors:

• *DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• LIFE EXPECTANCY(SERVICE LIFE)
• PROBABILITY
• RELIABILITY
• STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS
• LEAST SQUARES METHOD
• SAMPLING
• MATHEMATICS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE