The following data are taken from Lawless (1982, p.193) and represent the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last 2 observations are censored data from a ...

Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a statistical model involves maximizing the likelihood or, equivalently, the log likelihood with respect to the parameters. The parameter values at ...

The two-parameter Weibull distribution has been recognized as a useful model for survival populations associated with reliability studies and life testing experiments. In the analysis of atmospheric ...

Muhammad Sumair, Tauseef Aized, Syed Asad Raza Gardezi, Muhammad Mahmood Aslam Bhutta, Syed Ubaid ur Rehman, Syed Muhammad Sohail Rehman Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Vol. 39, No. 5 (September ...

When products start failing, management wants answers. Are they failing because of manufacturing problems? Or is the design to blame? One of the most widely regarded methods for ferreting out the ...