Exact likelihood inference based on an unified hybrid censored sample from the exponential distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-488

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Rasouli, Abbas ^b   Sanjari Farsipour, N ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Confidence bound; Exponential distribution; Generalized Type I and Type II hybrid censoring; Life testing; Likelihood inference; Type I and Type II hybrid censoring; Unified hybrid censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749126169     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650601158336     Document Type: Article

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