Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation

The fatigue failure of materials can be investigated by applying the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution to fatigue failure datasets. The coefficient of variation (CV) is an important descriptive statistic that is widely used to measure the dispersion of data. In addition, for two independent datase...

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Main Authors: Wisunee Puggard, Sa-Aat Niwitpong, Suparat Niwitpong
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
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author Wisunee Puggard,
Sa-Aat Niwitpong,
Suparat Niwitpong,
author_facet Wisunee Puggard,
Sa-Aat Niwitpong,
Suparat Niwitpong,
author_sort Wisunee Puggard,
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description The fatigue failure of materials can be investigated by applying the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution to fatigue failure datasets. The coefficient of variation (CV) is an important descriptive statistic that is widely used to measure the dispersion of data. In addition, for two independent datasets following BS distributions, the ratio of their CVs can be used to compare their CVs, especially when the difference is small, and constructing confidence intervals for this scenario is of interest in this study. Hence, we propose new confidence intervals for the ratio of the CVs from two BS distributions by using the bootstrap confidence interval (BCI), the fiducial generalized confidence interval (FGCI), a Bayesian credible interval (BayCI), and the highest posterior density (HPD) interval approaches. The performances of the proposed confidence intervals were compared with the generalized confidence interval (GCI) in terms of their coverage probabilities and average lengths via Monte Carlo simulations. The results indicate that the HPD interval outperformed the others when the coverage probabilities and the average lengths were both considered together. The efficacies of the proposed methods and GCI are illustrated using real datasets of the fatigue life of 6061-T6 aluminum coupons.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:202532022-10-25T07:57:54Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20253/ Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation Wisunee Puggard, Sa-Aat Niwitpong, Suparat Niwitpong, The fatigue failure of materials can be investigated by applying the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution to fatigue failure datasets. The coefficient of variation (CV) is an important descriptive statistic that is widely used to measure the dispersion of data. In addition, for two independent datasets following BS distributions, the ratio of their CVs can be used to compare their CVs, especially when the difference is small, and constructing confidence intervals for this scenario is of interest in this study. Hence, we propose new confidence intervals for the ratio of the CVs from two BS distributions by using the bootstrap confidence interval (BCI), the fiducial generalized confidence interval (FGCI), a Bayesian credible interval (BayCI), and the highest posterior density (HPD) interval approaches. The performances of the proposed confidence intervals were compared with the generalized confidence interval (GCI) in terms of their coverage probabilities and average lengths via Monte Carlo simulations. The results indicate that the HPD interval outperformed the others when the coverage probabilities and the average lengths were both considered together. The efficacies of the proposed methods and GCI are illustrated using real datasets of the fatigue life of 6061-T6 aluminum coupons. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20253/1/26.pdf Wisunee Puggard, and Sa-Aat Niwitpong, and Suparat Niwitpong, (2022) Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation. Sains Malaysiana, 51 (7). pp. 2265-2281. ISSN 0126-6039 https://www.ukm.my/jsm/malay_journals/jilid51bil7_2022/KandunganJilid51Bil7_2022.html
spellingShingle Wisunee Puggard,
Sa-Aat Niwitpong,
Suparat Niwitpong,
Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
title Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
title_full Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
title_fullStr Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
title_full_unstemmed Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
title_short Comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent Birnbaum-Saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
title_sort comparison analysis on the coefficients of variation of two independent birnbaum-saunders distributions by constructing confidence intervals for the ratio of coefficients of variation
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20253/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20253/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20253/1/26.pdf