In life testing observations, x 1, x 2, … x i , … x r are often recorded in time until only a fixed number r are obtained. The total number n of individuals in the sample may be unknown. Methods for estimating n are proposed for the situation where the x i are continuous variates, the sampling random, and the probability density function f(x) known.
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N. L. Johnson (1962) studied this question.
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