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In a load-sharing system, total workload is shared by all components and failure of one component increases workload of the surviving ones. The time interval between two consecutive component failures reflects component reliability under different workloads and is of interest to us. This study develops some methods to derive both exact and approximate confidence intervals for parameters in load-sharing...