Progressive interval censoring: Some mathematical results with applications to inference

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 2001, Pages 1921-1935

  Aggarwala, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Interval censoring; Likelihood intervals; Maximum likelihood estimation; Progressive censoring; Simulation; Type i censored samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244434723     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100105705     Document Type: Article

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