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Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which was recommended, analyzed and vastly popularized bv Sir R.A.Fisher in almost one-hundred years ago, is still the popular estimation method used for fitting probability distribution to data, including fitting lifetime distributions with censored data.However, MLE may produce substantial bias, even failed for interval estimation when the distribution tends to very skew or sample size is not big enough or the data are highly censored.