TY - JOUR
T1 - Pitman closeness as a criterion for the determination of the optimal progressive censoring scheme
AU - Volterman, William
AU - Davies, Katherine F.
AU - Balakrishnan, N.
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - Selecting the optimal progressive censoring scheme for the exponential distribution according to Pitman closeness criterion is discussed. For small sample sizes the Pitman closeness probabilities are calculated explicitly, and it is shown that the optimal progressive censoring scheme is the usual Type-II right censoring case. It is conjectured that this to be the case for all sample sizes. A general algorithm is also presented for the numerical computation of the Pitman closeness probabilities between any two progressive censoring schemes of the same size.
AB - Selecting the optimal progressive censoring scheme for the exponential distribution according to Pitman closeness criterion is discussed. For small sample sizes the Pitman closeness probabilities are calculated explicitly, and it is shown that the optimal progressive censoring scheme is the usual Type-II right censoring case. It is conjectured that this to be the case for all sample sizes. A general algorithm is also presented for the numerical computation of the Pitman closeness probabilities between any two progressive censoring schemes of the same size.
KW - BLUE
KW - Optimal censoring scheme
KW - Pitman closeness
KW - Progressive censoring
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U2 - 10.1016/j.stamet.2012.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.stamet.2012.03.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84861663048
SN - 1572-3127
VL - 9
SP - 563
EP - 572
JO - Statistical Methodology
JF - Statistical Methodology
IS - 6
ER -