Accuracy of Approximate Confidence Bounds Computed from Interval Censored Weibull and Lognormal Data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 43-76

  Ostrouchov, George ^a   Meeker, William Q ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; grouped data; interval data; likelihood ratio; maximum likelihood censored data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039534921     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949658808811050     Document Type: Article

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