G. Srinivasa Rao, Acceptance sampling plans from truncated life tests based on the Marshall-Olkin extended exponential distribution for percentiles, Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 479-484 (6 pages) Arbitrary nonparametric mixtures of exponential and Weibull (fixed shape) distributions are considered as possible models ...

The 95% profile likelihood confidence interval for the scale parameter is (0.6959, 0.9762), which does not contain 1. The hypothesis of an exponential distribution for the data is, therefore, rejected ...