Estimation with sequential order statistics from exponential distributions

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-324

  Cramer, Erhard ^a   Kamps, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Best linear unbiased estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistics; Progressive type II censoring; Record values; Sequential k out of n system; Sequential order statistics; Uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347630903     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012470706224     Document Type: Article

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