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No observed failures with positive versus zero exposure
Example
Assume Countable Choice.
Compare two right-censored exponential samples with no observed failures. In each scenario, assume the two event times are iid . In the first, two subjects are followed until fixed censoring time and both are censored there. In the second, both subjects are censored immediately at time . The deterministic censoring times make the subject pairs iid in each sample. Here is the common event-rate parameter in both samples.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Right-censored records use and ; in each scenario the two event times are iid and the censoring time is fixed and independent of the event times.
For and , the event likelihood factor is . If , its supremum occurs as and is not attained for ; if , it is constant. The boundary is not a proper exponential law on finite event times. Right-censored exponential likelihood and its boundary maximum
An exponential event time has . Exponential and Weibull survival specifications define probability laws
The two censoring designs form the family for , dominated by the fixed finite measure with specified density ; in particular . In scenario one , and in scenario two . Event-time observation, censoring, and truncation schemes, The measure with density relative to
Countable Choice is inherited from the exponential-law supplier [F2] and the likelihood supplier [F1]. The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Verification
In scenario one the records are for both subjects, so , , and . By [F1], the event likelihood factor is , whose supremum is approached only as .
In scenario two, [F2] gives almost surely, while . Thus and almost surely for both subjects, so , , and . By [F1], the event likelihood factor is for every .
The value is only a formal likelihood boundary for the finite-time exponential model; including it as an actual law requires an extended event-time model that admits .
These samples have the same failure count but different likelihood maximizers: positive exposure gives only a boundary supremum, whereas zero exposure gives every positive rate as a maximizer. Thus the no-failure boundary claim requires , in agreement with the full case distinction in [F1].
Earlier steps 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 establish the two boundary cases and the required positive exposure condition.
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Sources
- NIST/SEMATECH Engineering Statistics Handbook, Chapter 8, §8.4.1.2, PDF pp. 159–161 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Lu Tian, STAT331 Unit 2: Likelihood Construction, Inference for Parametric Survival Distributions, §2.2, PDF pp. 5–6 (standard reference, not scraped)