In the model of type I censored exponential lifetimes, coverage probabilities are compared for a number of confidence interval constructions proposed in literature. The coverage probabilities are calculated exactly for sample sizes up to 50 and for different degrees of censoring and different degrees of intended confidence. If not only a fair two-sided coverage is desired, but also fair one-sid...

Censoring is very common in life tests in the past several decades; the experimenter may be unable to obtain complete information on failure times of all experimental items. For this reason, Aggarwalla [1] suggested a useful type of censoring, namely, a progressively Type I interval censored data, which is a union of Type I interval and progressive censoring. This method of lifetime data collec...

This paper deals with the Bayesian inference of the linear hazard rate (LHR) distribution under a progressively censoring scheme. A unified treatment of both Type I and Type II censoring is presented under independent gamma priors for the parameters, that yields the posteriors as mixtures of gamma. The priors are motivated from a probability matching viewpoint. Along with marginal inference and...

Multiple events data are commonly seen in medical applications. There are two types of events, namely terminal and non-terminal. Statistical analysis for non-terminal events is complicated due to dependent censoring. Consequently, joint modelling and inference are often needed to avoid the problem of non-identifiability. This article considers regression analysis for multiple events data with m...

The problem of quickest change detection with a wireless sensor node is studied in this paper. The sensor that is deployed to monitor the environment has limited energy constraint to the classical quickest change detection problem. We consider the “censoring” strategy at the sensor side, i.e., the sensor selectively sends its observations to the decision maker. The quickest change detection pro...

In this paper we characterize the identified set and construct asymptotically valid and non-conservative confidence sets for the quantile regression coeffi cient in a linear quantile regression model, where the dependent variable is subject to possibly dependent censoring. The underlying censoring mechanism is characterized by an Archimedean copula for the dependent variable and the censoring v...

BACKGROUND This study illustrates alternative statistical methods for estimating cumulative risk of screening mammography outcomes in longitudinal studies. METHODS Data from the US Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) and the Nijmegen Breast Cancer Screening Program in the Netherlands were used to compare four statistical approaches to estimating cumulative risk. We estimated cumulati...

To strike a balance between energy efficiency and data quality control, this paper proposes a sensor censoring scheme for distributed sparse signal recovery via compressive-sensing based wireless sensor networks. In the proposed approach, each sensor node employs a sparse sensing vector with known support for data compression, meanwhile enabling making local inference about the unknown support ...