(1) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1, CA
Abstract:
In this paper, we develop procedures for obtaining confidence intervals for the parameters of a Laplace distribution as well
as upper and lower γ probability tolerance intervals for a proportion β, given a progressively Type-II right censored sample
from the Laplace distribution. The intervals are obtained by conditioning on the observed values of the ancillary statistics.
The intervals are exact, do not require numerical integration, and generalize the work of Childs and Balakrishnan (1996) who
considered the conventional Type-II right censored case.
Received: February 2000