Estimation of a Parallel Stress-strength Model Based on the Inverse Kumaraswamy Distribution

Abstract

The reliability of the stress-strength model attracted many statisticians for several years owing to its applicability in different and diverse parts such as engineering, quality control, and economics. In this paper, the system reliability estimation in the stress-strength model containing Kth parallel components will be offered by four types of shrinkage methods: constant Shrinkage Estimation Method, Shrinkage Function Estimator, Modified Thompson Type Shrinkage Estimator, Squared Shrinkage Estimator. The Monte Carlo simulation study is compared among proposed estimators using the mean squared error. The result analyses of the shrinkage estimation methods showed that the shrinkage functions estimator was the best since it has a minor mean squared error than the other methods followed by the additional shrinkage estimator. The stress and strength belong to the In verse Kumaraswamy distribution