Statistical inference of type-II progressively hybrid censored data with weibull lifetimes

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1710-1729

  Lin, Chien Tai ^a   Ng, Hon Keung Tony ^b   Chan, Ping Shing ^c  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Approximate maximum likelihood estimator; Extreme value distribution; Hybrid censoring; Life testing; Maximum likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

CENSORED DATA; LIFE-TESTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; POINT ESTIMATION; SAMPLE SIZES; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TEST TIME; VALUE DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL;

ELECTRON EMISSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 70449670933     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920902850069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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