Effect of Departures from Independence for a System

For a series or parallel system, though the component lifetimes have the absolutely continuous bivariate exponential distributions(ACBVE) by Block and Basu(1974), the common assumption that the component lifetimes are independent is used. The purpose of this paper, in this case, is to investigate the magnitude of the error caused by erroneous assumption, using the measure proposed by Klein and Moeschberger(1986). Estimation of the measure is conducted by maximum likelihood estimator(MLE) and those estimators are compared with corresponding jackknifed MLE through the Monte Carlo study.