Preface | |
List of Tables | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Mathematical Properties of Progressively Type-II Right Censored Order Statistics | p. 11 |
General Continuous Distributions | p. 11 |
The Exponential Distribution: Spacings | p. 16 |
The Uniform Distribution: Ratios | p. 20 |
The Pareto Distribution: Ratios | p. 23 |
Bounds for Means and Variances | p. 26 |
Simulational Algorithms | p. 31 |
Simulation Using the Uniform Distribution | p. 32 |
Simulation Using the Exponential Distribution | p. 33 |
General Progressively Type-II Censored Samples | p. 34 |
Recursive Computation and Algorithms | p. 41 |
The Exponential Distribution | p. 41 |
The Doubly Truncated Exponential Distribution | p. 50 |
The Pareto Distribution and Truncated Forms | p. 57 |
The Power Function Distribution and Truncated Forms | p. 62 |
Alternative Computational Methods | p. 67 |
Formulas in Terms of Moments of Usual Order Statistics | p. 67 |
Formulas in the Case of Symmetric Distributions | p. 69 |
Other Relations for Moments | p. 78 |
First-Order Approximations to the Moments | p. 81 |
Linear Inference | p. 85 |
One-Parameter (Scale) Models | p. 85 |
Two-Parameter (Location-Scale) Models | p. 96 |
Best Linear Invariant Estimation | p. 112 |
Likelihood Inference: Type-I and Type-II Censoring | p. 117 |
General Continuous Distributions | p. 118 |
Specific Continuous Distributions | p. 120 |
Linear Prediction | p. 139 |
The Exponential Case | p. 139 |
Case of General Distributions | p. 144 |
A Simple Approach Based on BLUEs | p. 150 |
First-Order Approximations to BLUPs | p. 154 |
Prediction Intervals | p. 157 |
Illustrative Examples | p. 159 |
Conditional Inference | p. 167 |
Inference for Location and Scale Parameters | p. 167 |
Inference for Quantiles and Reliability and Prediction Intervals | p. 169 |
Results for Extreme Value Distribution | p. 172 |
Results for Exponential Distribution | p. 173 |
Illustrative Examples | p. 175 |
Results for Pareto Distribution | p. 178 |
Optimal Censoring Schemes | p. 183 |
The Exponential Distribution | p. 186 |
The Normal Distribution | p. 187 |
The Extreme Value Distribution | p. 190 |
The Extreme Value (II) Distribution | p. 192 |
The Log-Normal Distribution | p. 193 |
Tables | p. 195 |
Acceptance Sampling Plans | p. 215 |
The Exponential Distribution | p. 215 |
The Log-Normal Distribution | p. 220 |
Bibliography | p. 223 |
Author Index | p. 235 |
Subject Index | p. 239 |
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