  The hybrid censoring is a mixture of Type I and Type II censoring schemes.
This paper presents the statistical inferences of the Inverse Weibull
distribution when the data are Type-I hybrid censored. First we consider the
maximum likelihood estimators of the unknown parameters. It is observed that
the maximum likelihood estimators can not be obtained in closed form. We
further obtain the Bayes estimators and the corresponding highest posterior
density credible intervals of the unknown parameters under the assumption of
independent gamma priors using the importance sampling procedure. We also
compute the approximate Bayes estimators using Lindley's approximation
technique. We have performed a simulation study and a real data analysis in
order to compare the proposed Bayes estimators with the maximum likelihood
estimators.
