Inference for the Two Parameter Reduced Kies Distribution under Progressive Type-II Censoring

In this paper, we obtained several recurrence relations for the single and product moments under progressively Type-II right censored order statistics and then use these results to compute the means and variances of two parameter reduced Kies distribution. Besides, these moments are then utilized to derived best linear unbiased estimators of the scale and location parameters of two parameter reduced Kies distribution. The parameters of the two parameter reduced Kies distribution are estimated under progressive type-II censoring scheme. The model parameters are estimated using the maximum likelihood estimation method. Further, we explore the asymptotic confidence intervals for the model parameters. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare between the proposed estimation methods under progressive type-II censoring scheme. Based on our study, we can conclude that maximum likelihood estimators is decreasing with respect to an increase of the schemes and comparing the three censoring schemes, it is clear that the mean sum of squares, confidence interval lengths are smaller for scheme 1 than schemes 2 and 3.

Progressively Type-II Right Censored Order Statistics from Hjorth Distribution and Related Inference

In this paper some recurrence relations satisfied by single and product moments of progressive Type-II right censored order statistics from Hjorth distribution have been obtained. Then we use these results to compute the moments for all sample sizes and all censoring schemes (R1,R2,...,Rm),m ≤ n, which allow us to obtain BLUEs of location and scale parameters based on progressive type-II right censored samples.