Determination of the Exact Optimum Order Statistics for Estimating the Parameters of the Exponential Distribution from Censored Samples.

This paper presents the small sample optimum choice of the k(≤ τ[sub 2]) order statistics for the best linear unbiased estimate (BLUE) of the parameters μ and σ or σ alone (μ known) when the sample is Type II censored on the right. For n = 2(1)10, k = 1(1)τ[sub 2] and τ[sub 2] = {[.50n]+1} (1)n, the optimum ranks, the coefficients of the BLUEs have been presented in Table I. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]