“…Figure 1 shows that the profile log-likelihood function is unimodal, so we suggest using α = 0.1 as an initial value to start the iteration to obtain the MLEs. The ordered data of 30 failure times are: 1,3,5,7,11,11,11,12,14,14,14,16,16,20,21,23,42,47,52,62,71,71,87,95,90,120,120,225,246,261. Using this sample, a progressively first-failure censored sample is generated with binomial removals from the real data set with m = 10 and p = 0.5.…”