The stress–strength analysis is investigated for a multicomponent system, where all strength variables of components follow a generalized exponential distribution and are subject to the generalized exponential distributed stress. The estimation methods of the maximum likelihood and Bayesian are utilized to infer the system reliability. For the Bayesian estimation method, informative and non-informative priors combined with three loss functions are considered. Because the computational difficulty on working posteriors, the Markov chain Monte Carlo method is adopted to obtain the approximation of the reliability estimator posterior. In addition, the bootstrap method and highest probability density interval are used to obtain the reliability confidence intervals. The simulation study shows that the Bayes estimator with informative prior is superior to other competitors. Finally, two real examples are given to illustrate the proposed estimation methods.
