The model of adaptive progressive Type-II censoring introduced by Ng et al. (2009)(referred to as Ng–Kundu–Chan model) is extended to allow switching from a given initial censoring plan ℛ to any arbitrary given plan 𝒮 of the same length. In this generalized model, the joint distribution...

In progressive censoring, items are removed at certain times during the life test. Commonly, it is assumed that the removed items are used for further testing. In order to take into account information about these additional testing in inferential procedures, we propose a two-step model of stage...