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Using Weibull++:
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[[Image:Exponential Distribution Example 4 Data.png|thumb|center|550px|]]
[[Image:Exponential Distribution Example 4 Data.png|center|550px|]]


The probability plot is:
The probability plot is:


[[Image:Exponential Distribution Example 4 Plot.png|thumb|center|550px|]]
[[Image:Exponential Distribution Example 4 Plot.png|center|550px|]]

Revision as of 09:30, 6 August 2012

MLE for Exponential Distribution

Using the data of Example 2 and assuming a two-parameter exponential distribution, estimate the parameters using the MLE method.

Solution

In this example we have complete data only. The partial derivative of the log-likelihood function, [math]\displaystyle{ \Lambda , }[/math] is given by:


[math]\displaystyle{ \frac{\partial \Lambda }{\partial \lambda }=\underset{i=1}{\overset{{{F}_{e}}}{\mathop \sum }}\,\left[ \frac{1}{\lambda }-\left( {{T}_{i}}-\gamma \right) \right]=\underset{i=1}{\overset{14}{\mathop \sum }}\,\left[ \frac{1}{\lambda }-\left( {{T}_{i}}-\gamma \right) \right]=0 }[/math]


Complete descriptions of the partial derivatives can be found in Appendix D. Recall that when using the MLE method for the exponential distribution, the value of [math]\displaystyle{ \gamma }[/math] is equal to that of the first failure time. The first failure occurred at 5 hours, thus [math]\displaystyle{ \gamma =5 }[/math] hours[math]\displaystyle{ . }[/math] Substituting the values for [math]\displaystyle{ T }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ \gamma }[/math] we get:

[math]\displaystyle{ \frac{14}{\hat{\lambda }}=560 }[/math]

or:

[math]\displaystyle{ \hat{\lambda }=0.025\text{ failures/hour}. }[/math]


Using Weibull++:

Exponential Distribution Example 4 Data.png

The probability plot is:

Exponential Distribution Example 4 Plot.png