Ammar M. Sarhan¹, Awad I. El- Gohary², Ahlam H. Tolba^2
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
²Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
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Maximum Likelihood Estimator, Bayesian Method, Reliability Analysis, Survival Data

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