The Art of Progressive Censoring
Applications to Reliability and Quality
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The optimal design of a k-level step-stress accelerated life-testing (ALT) experiment with unequal duration steps under Type-I hybrid censoring scheme for a general log-location-scale lifetime distribution is dis...
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In this paper, we first derive explicit expressions for the MLEs of the location and scale parameters of the Laplace distribution based on a Type-I right-censored sample arising from a time-constrained life-te...
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The distribution theory of progressive Type-I censored order statistics is presented. Furthermore, the dependence structure and the distribution of the number of observations up to some given threshold are add...
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The notion of adaptive progressive Type-II censoring is introduced in detail and the relation to some other models is illustrated. The discussion includes, e.g., nonadapative progressive Type-II censoring, the...
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Inference for progressive Type-I interval censored data is presented. The discussion includes parametric inference as well as problems of choosing optimal inspection times and optimal progressive interval cens...
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Several accounts to the simulation of progressively censored data are presented. This includes procedures mimicking the generation process ofprogressively censored order statistics as well as methods based on ...
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Step-stress models based on two progressively Type-II censored data sets are reviewed. The discussion includes likelihood inference as well minimum variance unbiased estimation. A special emphasis is put on ex...
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The mixture representation for progressively Type-II censored order statistics from arbitrary baseline distributions is proven. Furthermore, results for INID progressively Type-II censored order statistics and...
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Likelihood inference in progressive Type-II censoring is presented for a wide range of distributions including exponential, Weibull, extreme value, generalized Pareto, Laplace, and normal distributions. The ch...
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The distribution theory of progressively Type-II censored order statistics is presented with a focus on particular baseline distributions like exponential and generalized Pareto distributions. The discussion i...
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Inferential results for progressive hybrid and adaptive progressive Type-II censored data are shown. A special focus is given to one- and two-parameter exponential distributions.
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Several prediction problems for progressively Type-II censored data are considered. This includes prediction of progressively censored lifetime as well as prediction of future observations. After introducing s...
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Results for counting and quantile processes based on progressively Type-II censored data are presented.
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Results for reliability/acceptance sampling plans based on progressively Type-II censored data are reviewed. This includes results for exponential, Weibull, and log-normal lifetimes. Furthermore, capability in...
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The problem of an optimal censoring plan in progressive Type-II censoring is discussed for several criteria including minimum experimental time, maximum Fisher information, minimum variance of estimates, as we...
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Linear inference for progressively Type-II censored order statistics is discussed for location, scale, and location-scale families of population distributions. After a general introduction, results for exponen...
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The notion of progressive censoring is explained by introducing progressive Type-I and Type-II censoring in detail. The presentation includes detailed descriptions of the procedures as well as graphical illust...
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Results on likelihood inference in progressive Type-I censoring are reviewed for a plenty of distributions including one- and two-parameter exponential, extreme value, Weibull, normal, and Burr distributions.
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Further probabilistic results on progressively Type-II censored order statistics are summarized. First, characterization and stochastic ordering results are reviewed. After discussing aging properties, limitin...