MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS FROM GENERALLY CENSORED SAMPLES

Abstract

A simple derivation of the likelihood function for generally censored samples is given, where 'generally censored sample' connotes: a set of failure data containing both failures and survivors with various different tentative survival times.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0690185

Entities

People

  • Royce W. Soanes Jr.

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Distribution Functions
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • New York
  • Probability
  • Security
  • Survival

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.