“…An interesting representation of the system lifetime T of a coherent system with n components in terms of order statistics has been obtained by Samaniego (1985) (see also Kochar et al, 1999; Navarro et al, 2008; Samaniego, 2007), that is, where, form a pmf on , the so‐called signature. Inferential results have been established by, for example, Bhattacharya and Samaniego (2010), Balakrishnan et al (2012, 2011), Yang et al (2016), and Fallah et al (2020). An application of progressive censoring in this area has been presented in Cramer and Navarro (2016, 2015), Jablonka et al (2019), and Hermanns (2019).…”