This example considers a data set given in Lawless (1982). The data are the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last two observations are censored. Maximum ...

This paper is an extension of previous work by the writer concerning progressively censored sampling in the normal distribution [4] and in the Weibull distribution [6]. Here local maximum likelihood ...

Here’s a way to calculate the reliability for designs with several subsystems. • Weibull plots fit a curve through data, not data to a predetermined distribution’s curve. • After evaluating subsystems ...