Robust Estimators and Test Statistics for One-Shot Device Testing Under the Exponential Distribution

This paper develops a new family of estimators, the minimum density power divergence estimators (MDPDEs), for the parameters of the one-shot device model as well as a new family of test statistics, Z-type test statistics based on MDPDEs, for testing the corresponding model parameters. The family of MDPDEs contains as a particular case the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) considered in Balakrishnan and Ling (2012). Through a simulation study, it is shown that some MDPDEs have a better behavior than the MLE in terms of robustness. At the same time, it can be seen that some Z-type tests based on MDPDEs have a better behavior than the classical Z-test statistic in terms of robustness, as well.