In this paper, an approximate tolerance interval is presented for the discrete size-biased Poisson-Lindley distribution. This approximate tolerance interval, is constructed based on large sample Wald confidence interval for the parameter of the size-biased Poisson-Lindley distribution. Then, coverage probabilities and expected widths of the proposed tolerance interval is considered. The results show that the coverage probabilities have a better performance for the small values of the parameter and are close to the nominal confidence level, and are conservative for the large values of the parameter. Finally, an applicable example is provided for illustrating approximate tolerance interval.

Usually, we estimate the unknown parameter by observing a random sample and using the usual methods of estimation such as maximum likelihood method. In some situations, we have information about the real parameter in the form of a guess. In these cases, one may shrink the maximum likelihood or other estimators towards a guess value and construct a shrinkage estimator. In this paper, we study the behavior of a Bayes shrinkage estimator for the scale parameter of exponential distribution based on censored samples under an asymmetric and scale invariant loss function. To do this, we propose a Bayes shrinkage estimator and compute the relative efficiency between this estimator and the best linear estimator within a subclass with respect to sample size, hyperparameters of the prior distribution and the vicinity of the guess and real parameter. Also, the obtained results are extended to Weibull and Rayleigh lifetime distributions.