Inference about the Burr Type III Distribution under Type-II Hybrid Censored Data

This paper presents the statistical inference on the parameters of the Burr type III distribution, when the data are Type-II hybrid censored. The maximum likelihood estimators are developed for the unknown parameters using the EM algorithm method. We provided the observed Fisher information matrix using the missing information principle which is useful for constructing the asymptotic confidence intervals. The Bayesian estimates of the unknown parameters under the assumption of independent gamma priors are obtained using two approximations, namely Lindley's approximation and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to observe the behavior of the proposed methods and a real dataset representing is used to illustrate the derived results.