ABSTRACT

Here Z 1" ::; Z 211 ::; • • • ::; Z 1111 are the ordered statistics corresponding to Z 1, ••• , Z 11 where ties within life times within censoring times are ordered arbitrarily and ties among life times and censored times are treated as if the life time preceeds the censored time. 6111 is the concommitant of the ith order statistic i.e., b,/1 = bi if z,,n = zi.