Bayesian inference and life testing plan for the weibull distribution in presence of progressive censoring

Technometrics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-154

  Kundu, Debasis ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Credible intervals; Fisher information matrix; Gibbs sampling; Log concave density function; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Optimum censoring scheme; Prior distribution; Scale parameter; Shape parameter

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

(R ,S)-CONJUGATE; AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY (ASQ); BAYES ESTIMATES; BAYES ESTIMATORS; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN INFERENCES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; CONJUGATE PRIORS; CREDIBLE INTERVALS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONS; GIBBS SAMPLING; LIFE TESTING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; SCALE PARAMETERS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS; WEIBULL;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 46749129339     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017008000000217     Document Type: Article

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