Linear Estimation of the Logistic Parameters for Complete or Tail-Censored Samples

Abstract

In this paper we present the asymptotically best linear unbiased estimators for the location and scale parameters of the logistic distribution based on samples where there may be Type 2 censoring in the tails. Given the amount of censoring, the weights of the estimators can be expressed in simple closed forms. Comparisons of these with the best linear unbiased estimators and the Cramer-Rao lower bounds demonstrate that they have good efficiency even for small samples.