Inferences on Compound Rayleigh Parameters with Progressively Type-II Censored Samples

This paper considers inference under progressive type II censoring with a compound Rayleigh failure time distribution. The maximum likelihood (ML), and Bayes methods are used for estimating the unknown parameters as well as some lifetime parameters, namely reliability and hazard functions. We obtained Bayes estimators using the conjugate priors for two shape and scale parameters. When the two parameters are unknown, the closed-form expressions of the Bayes estimators cannot be obtained. We use Lindley.s approximation to compute the Bayes estimates. Another Bayes estimator has been obtained based on continuous-discrete joint prior for the unknown parameters. An example with the real data is discussed to illustrate the proposed method. Finally, we made comparisons between these estimators and the maximum likelihood estimators using a Monte Carlo simulation study.

• Abdullah Y. Al-Hossain

• Progressive type II censoring
• compound Rayleigh failure time distribution
• maximum likelihood estimation
• Bayes estimation
• Lindley's approximation method
• Monte Carlo simulation.

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