INFERENCE FOR A GENERAL TYPE-II CENSORSHIP MODEL

A general type II censorship model is introduced which subsumes existi ng type II models that have been considered in the literature. The lik elihood function associated with the data arising from such a model is derived. Decision-theoretic inference under the assumption that the f ailure time distribution belongs to the negative exponential family is presented. In particular, the problems of estimating the mean failure time and the survivor probabilities are discussed.