Inference Based on Type-II Hybrid Censored Data From a Weibull Distribution

A hybrid censoring scheme is a mixture of type-I and type-II censoring schemes. This article presents the statistical inferences on Weibull parameters when the data are type-II hybrid censored. The maximum likelihood estimators, and the approximate maximum likelihood estimators are developed for estimating the unknown parameters. Asymptotic distributions of the maximum likelihood estimators are used to construct approximate confidence intervals. Bayes estimates, and the corresponding highest posterior density credible intervals of the unknown parameters, are obtained using suitable priors on the unknown parameters, and by using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. The method of obtaining the optimum censoring scheme based on the maximum information measure is also developed. We perform Monte Carlo simulations to compare the performances of the different methods, and we analyse one data set for illustrative purposes.

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