During the past few decades, substantial research has been carried out on start-up demonstration tests. In this paper, we study the class of binary start-up demonstration tests under a general framework. Assuming that the outcomes of the start-up tests are described by a sequence of exchangeable...

Recently, a new cure rate survival model has been proposed by considering the Conway–Maxwell Poisson distribution as the distribution of the competing cause variable. This model includes some of the well-known cure rate models discussed in the literature as special cases. Cancer clinical...

HIV RNA viral load measures are often subjected to some upper and lower detection limits depending on the quantification assays, and consequently the responses are either left or right censored. Linear and nonlinear mixed-effects models, with modifications to accommodate censoring (LMEC and...

The EM algorithm is a powerful technique for determining the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) in the presence of binary data since the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters cannot be expressed in a closed-form. In this paper, we consider one-shot devices that can be used only once...