Bayesian prediction of the total time on test using doubly censored Rayleigh data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 781-789

  Raqab, Mohamed ^a   Madi, Mohamed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Highest posterior density estimate; Incomplete gamma function; Natural conjugate prior; Order statistics; Rayleigh distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036812043     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650214670     Document Type: Article

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