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Inferences concerning exponential distributions in the presence of randomly right censored data with missing censored
1Cancer Center Biostatistics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27710, USA.
Abstract:
Inferences concerning exponential distributions are considered from a sampling theory viewpoint when the data are randomly right censored and the censored values are missing. Both one-sample and m-sample (m > or = 2) problems are considered. Likelihood functions are obtained for situations in which the censoring mechanism is informative which leads to natural and intuitively appealing estimators of the unknown proportions of censored observations. For testing hypotheses about the unknown parameters, three well-known test statistics, namely, likelihood ratio test, score test, and Wald-type test are considered.
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