Publications by authors named "Essam A Ahmed"

This paper deals with the statistical inference of the unknown parameters of three-parameter exponentiated power Lindley distribution under adaptive progressive type-II censored samples. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) cannot be expressed explicitly, hence approximate MLEs are conducted using the Newton-Raphson method. Bayesian estimation is studied and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is used for computing the Bayes estimation.

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Lifetime distributions are an important statistical tools to model the different characteristics of lifetime data sets. The statistical literature contains very sophisticated distributions to analyze these kind of data sets. However, these distributions have many parameters which cause a problem in estimation step.

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This paper describes a method for computing estimates for the location parameter μ > 0 and scale parameter λ > 0 with fixed shape parameter α of the alpha power exponential distribution (APED) under type-II hybrid censored (T-IIHC) samples. We compute the maximum likelihood estimations (MLEs) of (μ, λ) by applying the Newton-Raphson method (NRM) and expectation maximization algorithm (EMA). In addition, the estimate hazard functions and reliability are evaluated by applying the invariance property of MLEs.

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In this paper, the estimation of unknown parameters of Chen distribution is considered under progressive Type-II censoring in the presence of competing failure causes. It is assumed that the latent causes of failures have independent Chen distributions with the common shape parameter, but different scale parameters. From a frequentist perspective, the maximum likelihood estimate of parameters via expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is obtained.

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