“…on data collection. Therefore, some incomplete data could be collected, such as progressive censoring data (see Balakrishnan and Aggarwala [3], Aggarwala [1], Hong et al [6], Wu et al [17], Wu et al [18], Sanjel and Balakrishnan [14], Lee et al [11], and Wu [16]). For step-stress accelerated life-testing data, Lee et al [10] assessed the lifetime performance index of exponential products In this paper, we consider the progressive type I interval censoring case.…”