Bayesian and MLE of R=P(Y>X) for Exponential Distribution Based on Varied L Ranked Set Sampling

The ranked set sampling (RSS) is an effective scheme popularly used to produce more precisely estimators. Despite its popularity, RSS suffers from some drawbacks which includes high sensitivity to outliers and it cannot sometimes be applicable when the population is relatively small. To overcome these limitations, varied L ranked set sampling (VLRSS) is recently introduced. It is shown that VLRSS scheme enjoys with many interesting properties over RSS and also encompasses several existing RSS schemes. In addition, it is also helpful for providing precise estimates of several population parameters. To fill this gap, this article extends the work and address the estimation of based ℛ on VLRSS when the strength and stress both follow exponential distribution. Maximum likelihood approach as well as Bayesian method are considered for estimating ℛ. The Bayes estimators are obtained by using gamma distribution under general entropy loss function and LINEX loss function. The performance of the estimators based on VLRSS are investigated by a simulation study as well as a real dataset relevant to industrial field. The results reveal that the proposed estimators are more efficient relative to their analogues estimators under L ranked set sampling given that the quality of ranking is fairly good.