Hybrid censoring schemes with exponential failure distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3065-3083

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Kundu, Debasis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Hybrid censoring; Two sided confidence interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444299580     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832273     Document Type: Article

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