Tables for Exact Lower Confidence Limits for Reliability and Quantiles, Based on Least-Squares Estimators of Weibull Parameters

Abstract

For the 2-parameter Weibull distribution, this paper gives tables to obtain exact lower s-confidence limits for reliability on the basis of the least-squares method and median plotting positions. The tables use a method based on the ancillary property of these estimators. They apply to samples of size N = 3(1)13, censored after the first m observations, m = 3(1)N. The same tables enable one to obtain lower s-confidence limits for population quantiles. The use of the tables is illustrated with a numerical example.