Exact likelihood inference based on type-I and type-II hybrid censored samples from the exponential distribution

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 319-330

  Childs, A ^a   Chandrasekar, B ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^a   Kundu, D ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Confidence bound; Exponential distribution; Life testing; Order statistics; Type I and Type II hybrid censoring

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SET THEORY;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 12444324608     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026326020003     Document Type: Article

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