Suppose that the time to death X has an exponential distribution
with hazard rate and that the right-censoring time C is exponential
with hazard rate
. LetT min(X,C) and 1 ifX C;0 ,if X C. Assume that X and C are
independent. (a) Find P( 1) (b) Find the distribution of T. (c)
Show that and T are independent. (d) Let (T1, 1),...,(Tn, n) be a
random sample from this model. Show that the maximum likelihood
estimator of is n i1 i n i1 Ti. Use parts a–c to nd the mean and
variance of ˆ .
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