Part I: Distribution Theory and Models.- Progressive censoring: Data and models.- Progressive Type-II censoring: Distribution theory.- Further distributional results on progressive Type-II censoring.- Progressive Type-I censoring: Basic properties.- Progressive hybrid censoring: Distributions and properties.- Adaptive progressive Type-II censoring and related models.- Moments of progressively Type-II censored order statistics.- Simulation of progressively censored order statistics.- Information Measures.- Progressive Type-II censoring under non-standard conditions.- Part II: Inference.- Linear estimation in progressive Type-II censoring.- Maximum likelihood estimation in progressive Type-II censoring.- Point estimation in progressive Type-I censoring.- Progressive hybrid and adaptive censoring and related inference.- Bayesian inference for progressively Type-II censored data.- Point prediction from progressively Type-II censored samples.- Statistical intervals for progressively Type-II censored data.- Progressive Type-I interval censored data.- Goodness-of-fit-tests in progressive Type-II censoring.- Counting and quantile processes and progressive censoring.- Nonparametric inferential issues in progressive Type-II censoring.- Part III: Applications in Survival Analysis and Reliability.- Acceptance sampling plans.- Accelerated life-testing.- Stress-strength models with progressively censored data.- Multi-sample models.- Optimal experimental designs.- Part IV: Appendices.- Appendix A: Distributions.- Appendix B: Additional demonstrative datasets.- Notation.- References.- Author index.- Subject index.
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