Abstract

Accelerated life tests play a very critical role in reliability analysis because highly reliable products are being produced with recent advanced technologies to sustain the market demand and competition. A progressive-stress accelerated life test is one of the kinds of accelerated life tests that allows applied stress to change continuously. Considering the importance of progressive-stress accelerated life tests, this paper deals with progressive-stress accelerated life tests when the lifetimes of units follow the log-logistic distribution and are progressively type-II censored where the associated scale parameter conforms to the inverse power law. Different estimators of model parameters are derived using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods. Interval estimation is also considered. In the sequel, approximate confidence, bootstrap, and Bayes credible intervals are constructed. Bayes estimators are obtained under squared error, LINEX, and entropy loss functions using proper and improper prior distributions. A simulation study is conducted based on various censoring schemes. The coverage percentages and interval widths are computed via Monte Carlo simulations. Bayes predictive estimates and intervals are also obtained. Finally, two different accelerated life test data are analyzed for illustration purposes.

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