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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">130102</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201501_13(1).0002</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Estimation for Flexible Weibull Extension under Progressive Type-II Censoring</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Singh</surname>
            <given-names>Sanjay Kumar</given-names>
          </name>
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        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Department of Statistics and DST-CIMS Banaras Hindu University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Singh</surname>
            <given-names>Umesh</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Department of Statistics and DST-CIMS Banaras Hindu University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Sharma</surname>
            <given-names>Vikas Kumar</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Department of Statistics and DST-CIMS Banaras Hindu University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kumar</surname>
            <given-names>Manoj</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_003">Department of Statistics and DST-CIMS Banaras Hindu University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>21</fpage>
      <lpage>42</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: : In this paper, we discussed classical and Bayes estimation procedures for estimating the unknown parameters as well as the reliability and hazard functions of the flexible Weibull distribution when observed data are collected under progressively Type-II censoring scheme. The performances of the maximum likelihood and Bayes estimators are compared in terms of their mean squared errors through the simulation study. For the computation of Bayes estimates, we proposed the use of Lindley’s approximation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques since the posteriors of the parameters are not analytically tractable. Further, we also derived the one and two sample posterior predictive densities of future samples and obtained the predictive bounds for future observations using MCMC techniques. To illustrate the discussed procedures, a set of real data is analysed.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Progressive Type-II censored data</kwd>
        <kwd>reliability and hazard functions</kwd>
        <kwd>maximum likelihood estimation</kwd>
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