Maximum Likelihood Estimation for a Class of Multinomial Distributions Arising in Reliability
可靠性分析中一类多项分布的最大似然估计
Summary Let Xi, i = 1, …,k be independent Bernoulli variables, with Xi ~ B(1, pi). Let Y = σ Xi, and consider a multinomial experiment based on n independent, identically distributed observations Y 1,…, Yn. This model is identifiable in the ordered parameter vector (p (1),…, p (k)), where p(i -1) ≤ p(i), and arises in reliability experiments in which k components in parallel have potentially different probabilities of failure. The family of multinomial distributions with the…