Multiple Comparisons for Exponential Median Lifetimes with the Control Based on Doubly Censored Samples

Under doubly censoring, the one-stage multiple comparison procedures with the control in terms of exponential median lifetimes are presented. The uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator for median lifetime is found. The upper bounds, lower bounds and two-sided confidence intervals for the difference between each median lifetimes and the median lifetime of the control population are developed. Statistical tables of critical values are constructed for the practical use of our proposed procedures. Users can use these simultaneous confidence intervals to determine whether the performance of treatment populations is better than or worse than the control population in agriculture and pharmaceutical industries. At last, one practical example is provided to illustrate the proposed procedures.

“Censorship of the orthodox press in communism. Case study: “Glasul wBisericii” Journal”

The present study treats a very little researched subject in the specialized literature, respectively the censorship of the orthodox press in communism. We turned our attention to the periodical publication “Glasul Bisericii”, the official magazine of the Metropolitan Church of Ungrovlahia. During the communist regime, the religious press was doubly censored. This was exercised by two institutions, namely: the Department of Cults and the General Directorate of Press and Printing. The censors of the Department of Cults who dealt with the journals of religious cults did not necessarily have theological studies, for which reason they could not understand certain specialized terms or phrases. This thing can be seen into the report signed by the censor Ecaterina Durosov Macheev, from 1971. Another example would be the typing mystakes that escaped from the watchful eye of censorship, and that could have affected the relations between Romanian Orthodox Church and Russian Orthodox Church and, implicitly, with the Soviet Union.