UniLindleyApprox
Performs Bayesian point estimation using Lindley's Approximation (1980) <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1980.tb01102.x> for arbitrary univariate probability distributions under numerous censoring and truncation schemes. Users supply the probability density function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF), survival function, log-prior density, initial parameter vector, support bounds, and observed data; the package automatically computes Bayesian point estimates under various loss functions using Lindley's approximation. Supported schemes include complete data, right censoring, left censoring, interval censoring, random censoring, block random censoring, Type-I censoring, Type-II censoring, progressive Type-II censoring, progressive first failure censoring, joint Type-I censoring, joint Type-II censoring, balanced joint progressive Type-II censoring, hybrid censoring, hybrid Type-I censoring, hybrid Type-II censoring, Type-I hybrid censoring, Type-II progressively hybrid censoring, doubly Type-II censoring, middle censoring, right truncation, and left truncation. The package computes posterior expectations of arbitrary smooth functions, supports multiple loss functions (squared error loss function (SELF), weighted squared error loss function (WSELF), modified quadratic squared error loss function (MQSELF), precautionary loss function (PLF), entropy loss function (ELF), linear-exponential (LINEX), generalized entropy loss function (GELF), Kullback-Leibler loss function (K-Loss), and user-defined), provides model selection criteria (Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC), corrected Akaike information criterion (AICc), Hannan-Quinn information criterion (HQIC), consistent Akaike information criterion (CAIC), Kullback information criterion (KIC)), goodness-of-fit statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Anderson-Darling, Cramer-von Mises, Watson, Chi-square), residual analysis (Cox-Snell, Martingale, Deviance, Pearson, Generalized, Randomized quantile), comprehensive visualization tools, prediction utilities, and simulation functions for benchmarking estimators. Methods are described in Lindley (1980) <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1980.tb01102.x>, Tierney and Kadane (1986) <doi:10.2307/2234555>, Tierney, Kass, and Kadane (1989) <doi:10.2307/2335663>, Nagar, Kumar, and Krishna (2026) <doi:10.59467/IJASS.2026.22.1>, Goel, Kumar, and Krishna (2026, "Estimation in power Lindley distributions using balanced joint progressively Type-II censored data"), Wu and Kus (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.03.010>, Goel and Krishna (2026) <doi:10.1007/s13198-026-03208-w>, Balakrishnan and Aggarwala (2000, ISBN:978-1-4612-1334-5), Mondal and Kundu (2020) <doi:10.1080/03610926.2018.1554128>, Ding and Gui (2023) <doi:10.3390/math11092003>, Prajapati, Mitra, and Kundu (2019) <doi:10.1007/s13571-018-0167-0>, Yadav, Jaiswal, and Yadav (2026) <doi:10.1007/s11135-026-02647-8>, Iyer, Jammalamadaka, and Kundu (2008) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.062>, Banerjee and Kundu (2008) <doi:10.1109/TR.2008.916890>, and Kundu and Joarder (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2005.05.002>.
- A comparative study of reliability models for joint type-I censored Lindley populations
- A new decision theoretic sampling plan for type-I and type-I hybrid censored samples from the exponential distribution
- A Robust Method for Testing Transformations to Achieve Approximate Normality
- Analysis of middle-censored data with exponential lifetime distributions
- Analysis of type-II progressively hybrid censored data
- Estimation in Inverse Pareto Distribution under Block Random Censoring
- Inference Based on Type-II Hybrid Censored Data From a Weibull Distribution
- On estimation based on progressive first-failure-censored sampling
- On the joint Type-II progressive censoring scheme
- Statistical inference and applications of the generalized inverted Xgamma exponential distribution using doubly type-II censored data
- Statistical Inference of Two Gamma Distributions under the Joint Type-II Censoring Scheme
- Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty and Time.
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