censored data

censored data

[¦sen·sərd ′dad·ə]
(statistics)
Observations collected by determining in advance whether to record only a specified number of the smallest or largest values, or of the remaining values in a sample of a particular size.
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Previous methods to address the issue of estimating resource use with censored data have notable limitations.
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Saleem and Aslam (2008a and b) use ordinary type I right censored data for Bayesian analysis of Rayleigh mixture.
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The focus of this review is on empirical likelihood regression method behavior on censored data and how those methods affect the result of the simulation studies.