• DocumentCode
    1316332
  • Title

    Asymptotically Best Linear Unbiased Estimation of the Rayleigh Parameter for Complete and Tail-Censored Samples

  • Author

    D´Agostino, Ralph B. ; Lee, Austin F.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mathematics/Boston University/264 Bay State Road, 4th floor/Boston, Mass. 02215 USA
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1975
  • fDate
    6/1/1975 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    156
  • Lastpage
    157
  • Abstract
    We present the asymptotically best linear unbiased estimator for the scale parameter of the Rayleigh distribution based on samples where there may be type 2 censoring in the tails. The coefficients of the estimator are expressible in simple closed forms. All that is needed is knowledge of the amount of censoring. The estimator has good efficiency even for samples as small as 5.
  • Keywords
    Probability distribution; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Tail;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1975.5215125
  • Filename
    5215125