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In this article, a large sample pooling procedure is considered for the reliability function of a Weibull distribution. Asymptotic properties of shrinkage estimation procedures based on the preliminary test are developed. It is shown that the proposed estimator has substantially smaller asymptoticmean squared error (AMSE) than the usual maximumlikelihood (ML) estimator inmost of the parameter space...