In many life testing and reliability studies, complete information on the failure times of all the experimental units may not be obtained for various reasons. Hence, censoring is very common in life testing experiments. Sometimes the experiments could not be under control completely because units may break accidentally. However, type I and type II censoring schemes do not allow for units to be removed from the test during the life testing duration. There are many cases in life testing experiments in which units are lost or removed from the test before failure. Progressive censoring is useful...
In many life testing and reliability studies, complete information on the failure times of all the experimental units may not be obtained for various ...