Type-I hybrid censoring of uniformly distributed lifetimes.

We consider Type-I hybrid censored lifetimes from a two-parameter uniform distribution with support [a, b] and focus on the derivation of the exact distribution of the MLEs. In particular, we show that the distribution of the MLE is degenerated. Though the expressions for the distributions of the MLEs and do not necessarily involve B-splines, the key tool to derive these representations is a B-spline based integral identity established in Dahmen and Micchelli (1986). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]