A Prediction Problem concerning Samples from the Exponential Distribution, with Application in Life Testing
- 1 November 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Technometrics
- Vol. 13 (4) , 725
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1266949
Abstract
The problem of predicting the rth ordered observation Xr in a sample of n from an exponential distribution, based on the observed values of the first k ordered observations from the sample (k < r ≤ n), is discussed. It is shown how to find an interval estimate for Xr , and the result is used to predict the remaining elapsed time in certain life test experiments involving items whose life times follow an exponential distribution.Keywords
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