Elham Basiri - Department of Mathematics, Kosar University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran

This paper describes the Bayesian prediction of the one parameter Rayleigh distribution when the data are type II censored data. The aim of this paper is finding the optimal value for number of failures in type II censoring by considering two criteria, total cost of experiment and mean squared prediction error

Type II censoring, Rayleigh distribution, Bayesian point predictor, Cost function