Generalized Fiducial Inference for the Stress–Strength Reliability of Generalized Logistic Distribution

Generalized logistic distribution, as the generalized form of the symmetric logistic distribution, plays an important role in reliability analysis. This article focuses on the statistical inference for the stress–strength parameter <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Ma...

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Main Authors: Menghan Li, Liang Yan, Yaru Qiao, Xia Cai, Khamis K. Said
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/7/1365
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Summary:Generalized logistic distribution, as the generalized form of the symmetric logistic distribution, plays an important role in reliability analysis. This article focuses on the statistical inference for the stress–strength parameter <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>Y</mi><mo><</mo><mi>X</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of the generalized logistic distribution with the same and different scale parameters. Firstly, we use the frequentist method to construct asymptotic confidence intervals, and adopt the generalized inference method for constructing the generalized point estimators as well as the generalized confidence intervals. Then the generalized fiducial method is applied to construct the fiducial point estimators and the fiducial confidence intervals. Simulation results demonstrate that the generalized fiducial method outperforms other methods in terms of the mean square error, average length, and empirical coverage. Finally, three real datasets are used to illustrate the proposed methods.
ISSN:2073-8994