lifetime distribution

In this paper, fuzzy order statistics are expressed based on the concept of α-value, and some of its applications in reliability have been examined. For this purpose, if the lifetime distribution of the system components is known, some of the reliability criteria of the $i$th order statistic using the definition of a fuzzy random variable based on the α-value have been investigated. Also, if the lifetime distribution of the components is unknown or only the fuzzy observations of the lifetime of the components are available, the empirical distribution function of the fuzzy data is used to estimate the reliability based on ordinal statistics, and examples are provided to illustrate the results.

In this paper، a new three-parameter lifetime distribution is introduced by combining an extended exponential distribution with a logarithmic distribution. This flexible distribution has increasing، decreasing and upside-down bathtub failure rate shapes. Various properties of the proposed distribution are discussed. The estimation of the parameters attained by EM algorithm and their asymptotic variance and covariance are obtained. In order to assess the accuracy of the approximation of variance and covariance of the maximum likelihood estimator، a simulation study is presented to illustrate the properties of distribution.