Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Three Parameter Weibull Distribution Based on Multi Stage Left and Right Progressive Censored Samples

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Commerce, Zagazig University, Egypt

Abstract

This paper is concerned with obtaining new maximum likelihood estimators for the unknown parameters of the Weibull distribution using a new type of censoring called multi stage left and right progressive censoring. This new type of censoring is a generalization of most of the different types of censoring. A numerical technique will be suggested and checked numerically to obtain these new estimators. The asymptotic variance covariance matrix is given.

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