Exact likelihood inference for two exponential populations under joint Type-II censoring

Comparative lifetime experiments are of paramount importance when the object of a study is to ascertain the relative merits of two competing products in regard to the duration of their service life. In this paper, we discuss exact inference for two exponential populations when Type-II censoring is implemented on the two samples in a combined manner. We obtain the conditional maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of the two exponential mean …