Journal article
Likelihood Inference Based on Left Truncated and Right Censored Data from a Gamma Distribution
Abstract
The gamma distribution is used as a lifetime distribution widely in reliability analysis. Lifetime data are often left truncated, and right censored. The EM algorithm is developed here for the estimation of the scale and shape parameters of the gamma distribution based on left truncated and right censored data. The Newton-Raphson method is also used for the same purpose, and then these two methods of estimation are compared through an extensive …
Authors
Balakrishnan N; Mitra D
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 679–688
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Date
September 1, 2013
DOI
10.1109/tr.2013.2273039
ISSN
0018-9529