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Although there are many sophisticated models for estimation of failure rate based on censored data in continuous distributions, not much work has been done in the discrete case. We introduce a discrete model for life lengths and consider its properties. For this model, we derive the corresponding maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters under Type I and Type II right-censoring.
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Rezaei, A., Arghami, N. Right censoring in a discrete life model. Metrika 55, 151–160 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840100135
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840100135