Conditional Maximum Likelihood and Interval Estimation for Two Weibull Populations under Joint Type-II Progressive Censoring

Abstract

Abstract Comparative lifetime experiments are important when the object of a study is to determine the relative merits of two competing duration of life products. This study considers the interval estimation for two Weibull populations when joint Type-II progressive censoring is implemented. We obtain the conditional maximum likelihood estimators of the two Weibull parameters under this scheme. Moreover, simultaneous approximate confidence region based on the asymptotic normality of the maximum likelihood estimators are also discussed and compared with two Bootstrap confidence regions. We consider the behavior of probability of failure structure with different schemes. A simulation study is performed and an illustrative example is also given. Keywords: Asymptotic normalityBootstrap intervalsCoverage probabilitiesJoint Type-II progressive censoringSimultaneous confidence intervalsWeibull distributionMathematics Subject Classification: 62N01