In this paper, we discuss dierent predictors of times to failure of units censored in multiple stages in a progressively censored  sample from proportional hazard rate models. The maximum likelihood predictors, best unbiased predictors and conditional median predictors are considered. We also consider Bayesian point predictors for the times to failure of units. A numerical example and a Monte C...

‎Lindley distribution has received considerable attention in the statistical literature due to its simplicity‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we consider the problem of predicting the failure times of experimental units that are censored in a right-censored sample‎‎ when the underlying lifetime is Lindley distributed‎. ‎The maximum likelihood predictor‎, ‎the Bes...

Prediction on the basis of censored data is very important topic in many fields including medical and engineering sciences. In this paper, based on progressive Type-II right censoring scheme, we will discuss Bayesian two-sample prediction. A general form for lifetime model including some well known and useful models such asWeibull and Pareto is considered for obtaining prediction bounds ...

In many industrial experiments involving lifetimes of machines or units, experiments have to be terminated early or the number of experiments must be limited due to a variety of circumstances (e.g. when expensive, etc.) the samples that arise from such experiments are called censored data. Cohen (1991) was one of the earliest to study a more general censoring scheme called progressive censor...

Background: Diabetic nephropathy is considered to be the most common cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD). Proteinuria is declared as the most marked risk factor in progression towards ESRD. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of pentoxifylline for reduction of proteinuria in type II diabetic patients. Methods: From May 2007 to June 2008, this randomized clinical trial study w...

background celiac disease occurs primarily in whites of northern european ancestry. previous beliefs about epidemiology of celiac disease in iran has changed after recent studies on the disease. the aim of this study is to find the frequency of celiac disease among patients with irritable bowel syndrome. materials and methods during one-year period (2006-07), patients with irritable bowel syndr...

  Objective(s): Osteoarthritis is one of the most common diseases in middle-aged population in the world. Cartilage tissue engineering (TE) has been presented as an effort to introduce the best combination of cells, biomaterial scaffolds and stimulating growth factors to produce a cartilage tissue similar to the natural articular cartilage. In this study, the chondrogenic potential of adipose d...

Among the two types of bacterial L-asparaginases, only type II enzymes have been used inthe treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia owing to their higher affinity for L-asparagine.However, current screening media used for the isolation of L-asparaginase-producingmicroorganisms do not discriminate between the two types of L-asparaginase. During anoptimization study conducted to increase L-aspa...

667 ISSN 1746-0751 10.2217/RME.11.69 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Regen. Med. (2011) 6(6), 667–673 “The restoration of shape is a central goal of regenerative medicine – rebuilding a complex structure such as a hand or eye requires more than stem cells driven towards individual tissues – the placement of all components in the right arrangement is crucial and cannot be micromanaged by direct bioen...