D-optimal joint best linear unbiased prediction of order statistics

In life-testing experiments, it is often of interest to predict unobserved future failure times based on observed early failure times. A point best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) has been developed in this context by Kaminsky and Nelson (J Am Stat Assoc 70:145–150, 1975). In this article, we develop joint BLUPs of two future failure times based on early failure times by minimizing the determinant of the variance–covariance matrix of the …