| Article ID: | iaor20051878 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 155 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 683 |
| End Page Number: | 694 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2004 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Li Kim-Hung, Choy S.T.B., Chen Jianwei |
| Keywords: | statistics: decision |
The sampling acceptance scheme with censoring is one of the important life inspection problems. In this article, a general model of sampling acceptance plan for the exponential distribution with exponentially distributed random censoring is presented and investigated using Bayesian decision theory. We consider a loss function which includes the sampling cost, time-consuming cost and decision loss to determine the optimal sampling acceptance plan. Under mild assumptions, the optimal Bayes rule can be proved to be of a monotonic form. Moreover, we obtain optimal Bayes rules and explicit expressions of the Bayes risk for two special decision loss functions. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the model.