ABSTRACT
Letf(x; 62 , 62 , ..• , 6r) and F(x; 6~> 62 , ••• , 6r) designate the pdf and cdf of an unrestricted (i.e., complete) distribution with parameters e ~> 62 , . . . , er. Likelihood functions of truncated and censored samples to be considered in subsequent chapters are given below. To simplify notation, the pdf and the cdf are abbreviated to f(x) and F(x) without explicitly indicating the parameters to be estimated.
