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Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of estimating unknown parameters of the Burr XII distribution under classical and Bayesian approaches when samples are observed under progressive type-I interval censoring. Under classical approach we employ the stochastic expectation maximization algorithm to obtain maximum likelihood estimators for the unknown parameters and also compute associated interval estimates. Further under Bayesian approach we obtain Bayes estimators with respect to different symmetric, asymmetric and balanced loss functions. In this regard we use Tierney-Kadane and Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm. For illustration purpose we analyse a real data set and conduct a Monte Carlo simulation study to observe the performance of the proposed estimators. Finally we present a discussion on inspection times and optimal censoring.

Keywords

Balanced loss; Bayesian estimation; HPD interval; maximum likelihood estimation; inspection times; SEM algorithm; optimal censoring

Published in

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
2017, volume: 87, number: 16, pages: 3132-3151
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU Authors

UKÄ Subject classification

Probability Theory and Statistics

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2017.1359600

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/126925