The 3-component mixture of power distributions under Bayesian paradigm with application of life span of fatigue fracture

Sci Rep. 2024 Apr 6;14(1):8074. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58245-x.

Abstract

Mixture distributions are naturally extra attractive to model the heterogeneous environment of processes in reliability analysis than simple probability models. This focus of the study is to develop and Bayesian inference on the 3-component mixture of power distributions. Under symmetric and asymmetric loss functions, the Bayes estimators and posterior risk using priors are derived. The presentation of Bayes estimators for various sample sizes and test termination time (a fact of time after that test is terminated) is examined in this article. To assess the performance of Bayes estimators in terms of posterior risks, a Monte Carlo simulation along with real data study is presented.

Keywords: Bayesian estimation; Censored data; Posterior risk; Power distribution; Prior distribution; Symmetric and asymmetric loss functions.