Estimating Population Size with Exponential Failure
指数失效模型下的总体规模估计
We are given J observations obtained by truncated sampling of a population of N items which fail independently according to the exponential distribution, where both N and the scale parameter of the exponential are unknown. Estimates of N are developed, and compared. These are conditional and unconditional maximum likelihood estimates, and a class of Bayes modal estimates. On the basis of second-order asymptotic properties, one of the Bayes estimates is singled out as most…