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The purpose of this chapter is to propose two types of progressive hybrid censoring schemes in life-testing experiments and develop exact inference for the mean of the exponential distribution. The exact distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator and an exact lower confidence bound for the mean lifetime are obtained under both types of progressive hybrid censoring schemes. Illustrative examples are finally presented.
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Childs, A., Chandrasekar, B., Balakrishnan, N. (2008). Exact Likelihood Inference for an Exponential Parameter Under Progressive Hybrid Censoring Schemes. In: Vonta, F., Nikulin, M., Limnios, N., Huber-Carol, C. (eds) Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4619-6_23
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