Optimal step-stress test under type I progressive group-censoring with random removals

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 817-826

  Wu, Shuo Jye ^a   Lin, Ying Po ^a   Chen, Shyi Tien ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

A optimality; D optimality; E optimality; Grouped data; Maximum likelihood method; Progressive type I censoring; Variance optimality

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249070880     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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