An estimation method for the reliability of "consecutive-k-out-of-n system"
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 60K10, 60K20, 60J10, 60J20, 62G02, 62G05, 68M15, 62N05, 68M15. This paper is concerned with consecutive-k-out-of-n system in which all the components have the same q lifetime probability, so, it's possible to estimate q from a sample by using the maximum likelihood principle. In the reliability formula of the consecutive-k-out-of-n system appears the term q^k. The goal in this work is to propose a direct estimation of q^k to avoid the accumulated...