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Time Series of Counts under Censoring: A Bayesian Approach

  • Isabel Silva,
  • Maria Eduarda Silva,
  • Isabel Pereira and
  • Brendan McCabe

23 March 2023

Censored data are frequently found in diverse fields including environmental monitoring, medicine, economics and social sciences. Censoring occurs when observations are available only for a restricted range, e.g., due to a detection limit. Ignoring c...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,777 Views
17 Pages

7 September 2022

We consider a regression analysis of multivariate interval-censored failure time data where the censoring may be informative. To address this, an approximated maximum likelihood estimation approach is proposed under a general class of semiparametric...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,269 Views
15 Pages

9 July 2020

In this paper, we propose a new type censoring scheme named a generalized adaptive progressive hybrid censoring scheme (GenAdPrHyCS). In this new type censoring scheme, the experiment is assured to stop at a pre-assigned time. This censoring scheme i...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,192 Views
16 Pages

On a Randomly Censoring Scheme for Generalized Logistic Distribution with Applications

  • Mustafa M. Hasaballah,
  • Oluwafemi Samson Balogun and
  • Mahmoud E. Bakr

21 September 2024

In this paper, we investigate the inferential procedures within both classical and Bayesian frameworks for the generalized logistic distribution under a random censoring model. For randomly censored data, our main goals were to develop maximum likeli...

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  • Open Access
65 Citations
8,607 Views
21 Pages

5 January 2015

Recently, progressive hybrid censoring schemes have become quite popular in a life-testing problem and reliability analysis. However, the limitation of the progressive hybrid censoring scheme is that it cannot be applied when few failures occur befor...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,699 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2021

Data with censoring is common in many areas of science and the associated statistical models are generally estimated with the method of maximum likelihood combined with a model selection criterion such as Akaike’s information criterion. This ma...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,524 Views
20 Pages

30 September 2020

In this paper, the evidential estimation method for the parameters of the mixed exponential distribution is considered when a sample is obtained from Type-II progressively censored data. Different from the traditional statistical inference methods fo...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,712 Views
29 Pages

Using progressive first-failure censored samples, we mainly study the inferences of the unknown parameters and the reliability and failure functions of the Inverted Exponentiated Half-Logistic distribution. The progressive first-failure censoring is...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
598 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2025

Accurate modeling of product lifetimes is vital in reliability analysis and engineering to ensure quality and maintain competitiveness. This paper proposes the progressively randomly censored Maxwell distribution, which incorporates both progressive...

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  • Open Access
581 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2025

Survival for cancer patients is predictable by gene expressions obtained from DNA microarrays for tumor samples. For analyzing survival data with gene expressions, traditional survival analysis methods have been employed. However, these methods rely...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
551 Views
19 Pages

Unified Hybrid Censoring Samples from Power Pratibha Distribution and Its Applications

  • Hebatalla H. Mohammad,
  • Khalaf S. Sultan and
  • Mahmoud M. M. Mansour

8 July 2025

This paper suggests an extensive inferential method for the Power Pratibha Distribution (PPD) under Unified Hybrid Censoring Schemes (UHCSs), since there is a growing interest in flexible models in both reliability and service operations. This work s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,215 Views
33 Pages

28 December 2020

In reality, estimations for the unknown parameters of truncated distribution with censored data have wide utilization. Truncated normal distribution is more suitable to fit lifetime data compared with normal distribution. This article makes statistic...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,861 Views
20 Pages

24 August 2022

Recently, the generalized type I progressive hybrid censoring scheme (GenT1PrHyCS) and generalized type II progressive hybrid censoring scheme (GenT2PrHyCS) have become quite popular in reliability studies. These two type censoring schemes are very c...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,326 Views
20 Pages

Inference for the Two Parameter Reduced Kies Distribution under Progressive Type-II Censoring

  • Mansour Shrahili,
  • Naif Alotaibi,
  • Devendra Kumar and
  • Salem A. Alyami

9 November 2020

In this paper, we obtained several recurrence relations for the single and product moments under progressively Type-II right censored order statistics and then use these results to compute the means and variances of two parameter reduced Kies distrib...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,874 Views
21 Pages

10 November 2022

Generalized progressive hybrid censored mechanisms have been proposed to reduce the test duration and to save the cost spent on testing. This paper considers the problem of estimating the unknown model parameters and the reliability time functions of...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,009 Views
26 Pages

Bayesian Analysis Using Joint Progressive Type-II Censoring Scheme

  • Mohamed G. M. Ghazal,
  • Mustafa M. Hasaballah,
  • Rashad M. EL-Sagheer,
  • Oluwafemi Samson Balogun and
  • Mahmoud E. Bakr

7 October 2023

The joint censoring technique becomes crucial when the study’s aim is to assess the comparative advantages of products concerning their service times. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in progressive censoring as a means to red...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,746 Views
16 Pages

Prognostic analysis for patient survival often employs gene expressions obtained from high-throughput screening for tumor tissues from patients. When dealing with survival data, a dependent censoring phenomenon arises, and thus the traditional Cox mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,126 Views
34 Pages

15 September 2020

Incomplete data are unavoidable for survival analysis as well as life testing, so more and more researchers are beginning to study censoring data. This paper discusses and considers the estimation of unknown parameters featured by the Kumaraswamy dis...

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  • Open Access
1,463 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2024

Model averaging has become a crucial statistical methodology, especially in situations where numerous models vie to elucidate a phenomenon. Over the past two decades, there has been substantial advancement in the theory of model averaging. However, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,808 Views
24 Pages

26 February 2024

To gather enough data from studies that are ongoing for an extended duration, a newly improved adaptive Type-II progressive censoring technique has been offered to get around this difficulty and extend several well-known multi-stage censoring plans....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
895 Views
13 Pages

29 July 2025

In medical research, random censoring often occurs due to unforeseen subject withdrawals, whereas progressive censoring is intentionally applied to minimize time and resource requirements during experimentation. This work focuses on estimating the pa...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,743 Views
20 Pages

5 June 2024

The length-biased lognormal distribution is a length-biased version of lognormal distribution, which is developed to model the length-biased lifetime data from, for example, biological investigation, medical research, and engineering fields. Owing to...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,534 Views
21 Pages

Analysis of Block Adaptive Type-II Progressive Hybrid Censoring with Weibull Distribution

  • Kundan Singh,
  • Yogesh Mani Tripathi,
  • Liang Wang and
  • Shuo-Jye Wu

22 December 2024

The estimation of unknown model parameters and reliability characteristics is considered under a block adaptive progressive hybrid censoring scheme, where data are observed from a Weibull model. This censoring scheme enhances experimental efficiency...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,864 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2019

As it is often unavoidable to obtain incomplete data in life testing and survival analysis, research on censoring data is becoming increasingly popular. In this paper, the problem of estimating the entropy of a two-parameter Lomax distribution based...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,804 Views
25 Pages

22 July 2021

For the purpose of improving the statistical efficiency of estimators in life-testing experiments, generalized Type-I hybrid censoring has lately been implemented by guaranteeing that experiments only terminate after a certain number of failures appe...

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  • Open Access
812 Views
27 Pages

26 May 2025

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the application of progressive censoring as a means to reduce both cost and experiment duration. In the absence of explanatory variables, the present study employs a statistical inference appr...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
893 Views
17 Pages

27 February 2025

To save time and cost for a parameter inference, the type-II hybrid censoring scheme has been broadly applied to collect one-component samples. In the current study, one of the essential parameters for comparing two distributions, that is, the stress...

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  • Open Access
314 Views
20 Pages

12 November 2025

General progressive Type-II censoring is widely applied in life-testing experiments to enhance efficiency by allowing early removal of surviving units, thereby reducing experimental time and cost. This paper develops exact inference and prediction pr...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,446 Views
16 Pages

Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Estimation of the Nadaraj ah–Haghighi Distribution: Using Progressive Type-1 Censoring Scheme

  • Ibrahim Elbatal,
  • Naif Alotaibi,
  • Salem A. Alyami,
  • Mohammed Elgarhy and
  • Ahmed R. El-Saeed

27 February 2022

This work will address the problem of estimating the parameters for the Nadaraj ah–Haghighi (NH) distribution using progressive Type-1 censoring (PT1C) utilizing Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches. To apply PT1C, censoring times for each stag...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,739 Views
11 Pages

Informative Censoring—A Cause of Bias in Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Using Hospital Data

  • Hung-Mo Lin,
  • Sean T. H. Liu,
  • Matthew A. Levin,
  • John Williamson,
  • Nicole M. Bouvier,
  • Judith A. Aberg,
  • David Reich and
  • Natalia Egorova

11 January 2023

(1) Background: Several retrospective observational analyzed treatment outcomes for COVID-19; (2) Methods: Inverse probability of censoring weighting (IPCW) was applied to correct for bias due to informative censoring in database of hospitalized pati...

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  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,033 Views
16 Pages

Applying Transformer Insulation Using Weibull Extended Distribution Based on Progressive Censoring Scheme

  • Hisham M. Almongy,
  • Fatma Y. Alshenawy,
  • Ehab M. Almetwally and
  • Doaa A. Abdo

21 May 2021

In this paper, the Weibull extension distribution parameters are estimated under a progressive type-II censoring scheme with random removal. The parameters of the model are estimated using the maximum likelihood method, maximum product spacing, and B...

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  • Open Access
958 Views
25 Pages

In recent years, joint censoring schemes have gained significant attention in lifetime experiments and reliability analysis. A refined approach, known as the balanced joint progressive censoring scheme, has been introduced in statistical studies. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
564 Views
17 Pages

Statistical Analysis Under a Random Censoring Scheme with Applications

  • Mustafa M. Hasaballah and
  • Mahmoud M. Abdelwahab

3 July 2025

The Gumbel Type-II distribution is a widely recognized and frequently utilized lifetime distribution, playing a crucial role in reliability engineering. This paper focuses on the statistical inference of the Gumbel Type-II distribution under a random...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,428 Views
15 Pages

Fuzzy Evaluation Model for Lifetime Performance Using Type-I Censoring Data

  • Kuo-Ching Chiou,
  • Tsun-Hung Huang,
  • Kuen-Suan Chen and
  • Chun-Min Yu

21 June 2024

As global warming becomes increasingly serious, humans start to consider how to coexist with the natural environment. People become more and more aware of environmental protection and sustainable development. Therefore, in the pursuit of economic gro...

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  • Open Access
334 Views
32 Pages

5 December 2025

The very flexible Weibull (VF-W) distribution is formulated by expressing its cumulative risk function as a logarithmic composite of auxiliary cumulative risks, making the model particularly well-suited for modeling heterogeneous life behaviors. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,217 Views
23 Pages

23 April 2023

The joint Type-II censoring scheme is a useful model when carrying out comparative lifecycle tests of units from various production lines. This article takes into account the estimation problem of the joint Type-II censoring data coming from two Gamm...

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  • Open Access
368 Views
17 Pages

17 October 2025

The analysis of lifetime data under censoring schemes plays a vital role in reliability studies and survival analysis, where complete information is often difficult to obtain. This work focuses on the estimation of the parameters of the recently prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,344 Views
20 Pages

Inference for Kumaraswamy Distribution under Generalized Progressive Hybrid Censoring

  • Liang Wang,
  • Ying Zhou,
  • Yuhlong Lio and
  • Yogesh Mani Tripathi

17 February 2022

In this paper, generalized progressive hybrid censoring is discussed, while a scheme is designed to provide a flexible and symmetrical scenario to collect failure information in the whole life cycle of units. When the lifetime of units follows Kumara...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,387 Views
22 Pages

13 October 2022

This paper is an endeavor to investigate some estimation problems of the unknown parameters and some reliability measures of the alpha power exponential distribution in the presence of progressive first-failure censored data. In this regard, the clas...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,985 Views
20 Pages

12 May 2021

In this article, we discuss the estimation of the parameters for Gompertz distribution and prediction using general progressive Type-II censoring. Based on the Expectation–Maximization algorithm, we calculate the maximum likelihood estimates. Bayesia...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,808 Views
25 Pages

2 February 2025

This research focuses on the prediction and estimation problems for the generalized exponential distribution under Type-II censoring. Firstly, maximum likelihood estimations for the parameters of the generalized exponential distribution are computed...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,478 Views
19 Pages

1 October 2020

In this paper, the parameters of the extended odd Weibull exponential distribution are estimated under progressive type-II censoring scheme with random removal. The model parameters are estimated using the maximum product spacing and maximum likeliho...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,087 Views
21 Pages

7 February 2023

This study addresses the estimation problems of the modified Lindley distribution using a progressive Type-II censoring plan. Using the maximum likelihood and maximum product of spacing and Bayesian estimation methods, the unknown parameter, reliabil...

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  • Open Access
503 Views
14 Pages

The given paper proposes a new statistical framework based on the combination of the Fav-Jerry distribution (FJD) and a joint type-II censoring scheme (JT-II-CS) to examine heterogeneous and censored data. The FJD offers tractability in analysis by u...

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245 Views
39 Pages

12 December 2025

Generalized censoring, combined with a power-based distribution, improves inferential efficiency by capturing more detailed failure-time information in complex testing scenarios. Conventional censoring schemes may discard substantial failure-time inf...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,325 Views
24 Pages

24 January 2022

Inverted exponentiated Rayleigh distribution is a widely used and important continuous lifetime distribution, which plays a key role in lifetime research. The joint progressively type-II censoring scheme is an effective method used in the quality eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,707 Views
12 Pages

Generalized Bayes Prediction Study Based on Joint Type-II Censoring

  • Yahia Abdel-Aty,
  • Mohamed Kayid and
  • Ghadah Alomani

23 July 2023

In this paper, the problem of predicting future failure times based on a jointly type-II censored sample from k exponential populations is considered. The Bayesian prediction intervals and point predictors were then obtained. Generalized Bayes is a B...

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534 Views
34 Pages

21 September 2025

The Maxwell–Boltzmann (MB) distribution is important because it provides the statistical foundation for connecting microscopic particle motion to macroscopic gas properties by statistically describing molecular speeds and energies, making it es...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,613 Views
10 Pages

13 April 2022

Under progressive type II censoring, the credible interval estimation and the credible region for parameters of two-parameter exponential distribution based on the Bayesian approach are presented in this paper. Two methods of Bayesian credible region...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,979 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2022

The current paper proposes a new three-parameter probability distribution, called power Darna distribution (PDD), as an extension to the Darna distribution. An extra parameter is added to the base model and aims to increase the flexibility of the mod...

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