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This research topic is related to asymmetrical probability distributions and applications across disciplines. The asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator of the lifetime performance index is utilized to develop the testing procedure. In order to reach the given power level, the minimum sample size is determined and tabulated. In order to minimize the total cost that occurred under progressive type I interval censoring, the sampling design is investigated to determine the minimum number of inspection intervals and equal interval lengths when the termination time of experiment is fixed or not fixed. For illustrative aims, one practical example is given for the implementation of our proposed sampling design to collect the progressive type I interval censored sample so that the users can use this sample to test if the lifetime performance index exceeds the desired target level.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym13091691","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,14]],"date-time":"2021-09-14T21:47:21Z","timestamp":1631656041000},"page":"1691","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Experimental Design for the Lifetime Performance Index of Weibull Products Based on the Progressive Type I Interval Censored Sample"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0611-6701","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shu-Fei","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Tamkang University, Taipei 251301, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu-Cheng","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Tamkang University, Taipei 251301, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chi-Han","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Tamkang University, Taipei 251301, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei-Tsung","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Taipei, Taipei 100234, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Montgomery, D.C. 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