Testing for ordered failure rates under general progressive censoring |
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Authors: | Bhaskar Bhattacharya |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4408, USA |
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Abstract: | For exponentially distributed failure times under general progressive censoring schemes, testing procedures for ordered failure rates are proposed using the likelihood ratio principle. Constrained maximum likelihood estimators of the failure rates are found. The asymptotic distributions of the test statistics are shown to be mixtures of chi-square distributions. When testing the equality of the failure rates, a simulation study shows that the proposed test with restricted alternative has improved power over the usual chi-square statistic with an unrestricted alternative. The proposed methods are illustrated using data of survival times of patients with squamous carcinoma of the oropharynx. |
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Keywords: | Chi-bar square distribution Clinical trials Nondecreasing order Two-parameter exponential distribution Life-testing |
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