In progressive censoring, items are removed at certain times during the life test. Commonly, it is assumed that the removed items are used for further testing. In order to take into account information about these additional testing in inferential procedures, we propose a two-step model of stage...

Testing for the ratio of binomial proportions (often called the relative risk) is quite common in clinical trials and epidemiology study or more generally in the pharmaceutical setting. Although this is an easy problem when we have large sample sizes, it becomes more challenging when sample...