# Approximate MLE for Rayleigh Distribution in Singly Right Censored Samples

• Jungsoo Woo (professor, Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University) ;
• Suk-Bok Kang (professor, Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University) ;
• Young-Suk Cho (Researcher, Institute of National Science, Yeungnam University) ;
• Sangchoon Jeon (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
• Published : 1998.04.01

#### Abstract

By assuming a singly right cenosred sample, we propose the approximate maximum likelihood estimator (AMLE) of the scale parameter of the p-dimensional Rayleigh distribution. We compare the proposed estimator in ·terms of the mean squared error through Monte Carlo methods.

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