Lloyd, Chris J.; Kabaila, Paul - In: Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 45 (2003) 2, pp. 167-174
In 1957, R.J. Buehler gave a method of constructing honest upper confidence limits for a parameter that are as small as possible subject to a pre-specified ordering restriction. In reliability theory, these 'Buehler bounds' play a central role in setting upper confidence limits for failure...