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For predicting future failures, we derive three distinct point predictors: the Best Unbiased Predictor (BUP), the Conditional Median Predictor (CMP), and the Bayesian Predictor (BP). Corresponding prediction intervals are constructed using frequentist pivotal quantities, Bayesian Equal-Tailed Intervals (ETIs), and Highest Posterior Density (HPD) methods. The Bayesian procedures are implemented via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. We evaluate the finite-sample performance of the proposed methodologies through a Monte Carlo simulation study and further validate them using two real-world datasets, namely bladder cancer remission times and guinea pig survival times. The numerical results indicate that the proposed BP, particularly under the empirical prior, provides the most accurate and stable overall performance for point prediction, while the frequentist predictors become less reliable in extreme heavy-tailed settings. For interval prediction, the Bayesian HPD method consistently outperforms the alternatives, substantially reducing interval lengths for right-skewed data while maintaining the nominal coverage probability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e28040466","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,20]],"date-time":"2026-04-20T09:37:42Z","timestamp":1776677862000},"page":"466","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Frequentist and Bayesian Predictive Inference for the Log-Logistic Distribution Under Progressive Type-II Censoring"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Ziteng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4318-1780","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenhao","family":"Gui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Lawless, J.F. 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