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Hybrid censoring schemes are commonly used in life-testing experiments to reduce the experimental time and the cost. A Type-II progressive hybrid censoring scheme (PHCS) was introduced by Kundu and Joarder (Comput Stat Data Anal 50:2509–2528, 2006) that combines progressive Type-II censoring and Type-I censoring. In this paper, we consider the statistical inference of a two-parameter exponential distribution under the Type-II PHCS. The conditional maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the model parameters and their joint and marginal conditional moment generating functions are derived. Based on these exact conditional moments, bias-reduced estimators are proposed and their distributions are discussed. Confidence intervals of the model parameters based on exact and asymptotic distributions of the MLEs and bias-reduced estimators are developed. The performances of the point and interval estimation procedures are evaluated and compared through exact calculations and Monte Carlo simulations. Recommendations are made based on these results and an illustrative example is presented.
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The authors are grateful to the editor and the anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments which led to this substantial improvement on an earlier version of the paper. This project was supported by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Science Direct Grant (Project ID 4053023) and a Grant from the Simons Foundation (#280601 to Tony Ng).
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Appendix: Proof of Theorem 1
Appendix: Proof of Theorem 1
The explicit expression of the conditional mgf of \({\hat{\theta }}\) and \({\hat{\mu }}\) can be derived by using the following lemmas.
Lemma 1
and
Proof
See Lemma 1 in Balakrishnan et al. (2002). \(\square \)
Lemma 2
\(p_{l}\) and \(T^*_{l}\) are defined by (7). \(\square \)
Proof
By using Lemma 1, we have
where \(a_1 = \frac{1+R_1}{\theta }+\frac{R^*_1t}{m}-s, a_i = \left( \frac{1}{\theta }-\frac{t}{m}\right) (1+R_i), \text{ for } 2\le i\le m.\) For \(j=1\), we have
and for \(j \ge 2\), we have \( \sum \nolimits _{i=j}^{m}a_i = \left( \frac{1}{\theta }-\frac{t}{m} \right) \sum \nolimits _{i=j}^{m}(1+R_i) =\left( \frac{1}{\theta }-\frac{t}{m} \right) R_{j-1}^*.\) Thus,
Then, we can write
\(\square \)
Lemma 3
\(p_{j,l}\) and \(T^*_{j,l}\) are defined by (8). \(\square \)
Proof
By using Lemma 1, we have
where \(a_1 = \frac{1+R_1}{\theta }+\frac{R^*_1t}{j}-s, a_i = \left( \frac{1}{\theta }-\frac{t}{j} \right) (1+R_i), \text{ for } 2\le i\le j. \) For \(j'=1\), we have \( \sum \nolimits _{i=1}^{j}a_i = \frac{1}{\theta }(n-R_{j}^*)+\frac{R_{j}^*t}{j}-s\), and for \(j'\ge 2\), we have \(\sum \nolimits _{i=j'}^{j}a_i = \left( \frac{1}{\theta }-\frac{t}{j} \right) (R_{j'-1}^*-R_{j}^*).\) Thus,
Therefore,
\(\square \)
Proof of Theorem 1
Condition on the values of \(D\) according to the different situations in Eq. (3), we have
Upon carrying out the integrations in the Eq. (30) by using Lemmas 2 and 3, we obtain the formula in Eq. (6) and hence Theorem 1 is proved. \(\square \)
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Chan, P.S., Ng, H.K.T. & Su, F. Exact likelihood inference for the two-parameter exponential distribution under Type-II progressively hybrid censoring. Metrika 78, 747–770 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-014-0525-5
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