Reliability Estimation of the Truncated Exponential Model

This paper deals with the minimum variance unbiased estimation of the reliability function of the one parameter exponential model, truncated from above at a known point, on the basis of a full and a censored sample. The techniques used are those of Barton [2], Laurent [9], and Basu [3] combined with results by Tukey [17] and Smith [14]. The derivations are direct applications of these techniques.