Improved Predictive Inference for Responses Based on Location Parameter Median from the Rayleigh Model Given a Doubly Censored Sample

The purpose of this article is to investigate the predictive inference for responses from the location parameter mean as well as from the median given a doubly censored sample from the two-parameter Rayleigh model. The predictive results by Khan et al. (2010 Khan , H. M. R. , Provost , S. B. , Ashima , S. ( 2010 ). Predictive Inference from a Two-Parameter Rayleigh Life Model Given a Doubly Censored Sample . Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth. 39 ( 7 ): 1237 – 1246 .Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) are used to obtain the predictive inference for responses from the median, where Khan et al. (2010 Khan , H. M. R. , Provost , S. B. , Ashima , S. ( 2010 ). Predictive Inference from a Two-Parameter Rayleigh Life Model Given a Doubly Censored Sample . Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth. 39 ( 7 ): 1237 – 1246 .Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) obtained the future estimates from the mean. A numerical example representing 66 liver cancer patients is used for predictive analysis. It is concluded that the predictive inference from the median gives precise results as compared with the location parameter mean.