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===  Lognormal Log-Likelihood Functions and their Partials===
The general log-likelihood function (without the constant) for the lognormal distribution is composed of three summation portions: 


::<math>\begin{align}
   \ln (L)= & \Lambda =\underset{i=1}{\overset{{{F}_{e}}}{\mathop \sum }}\,{{N}_{i}}\ln \left[ \frac{1}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}}\phi \left( \frac{\ln \left( {{T}_{i}} \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right) \right] \\ 
   & \text{ }+\underset{i=1}{\overset{S}{\mathop \sum }}\,N_{i}^{\prime }\ln \left[ 1-\Phi \left( \frac{\ln \left( T_{i}^{\prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right) \right] \\ 
   & \text{ }+\underset{i=1}{\overset{FI}{\mathop \sum }}\,N_{i}^{\prime \prime }\ln \left[ \Phi \left( \frac{\ln \left( T_{Ri}^{\prime \prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)-\Phi \left( \frac{\ln \left( T_{Li}^{\prime \prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right) \right]  
\end{align}</math>

:where:
::•	<math>{{F}_{e}}</math> is the number of groups of times-to-failure data points
::•	<math>{{N}_{i}}</math> is the number of times-to-failure in the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> time-to-failure data group
::•	<math>{\mu }'</math> is the mean of the natural logarithms of the times-to-failure (unknown a priori, the first of two parameters to be found)
::•	<math>{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}</math> is the standard deviation of the natural logarithms of the times-to-failure (unknown a priori, the second of two parameters to be found)
::•	<math>{{T}_{i}}</math> is the time of the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> group of time-to-failure data
::•	<math>S</math> is the number of groups of suspension data points
::•	<math>N_{i}^{\prime }</math> is the number of suspensions in the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> group of suspension data points
::•	<math>T_{i}^{\prime }</math> is the time of the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> suspension data group
::•	<math>FI</math> is the number of interval data groups
::•	<math>N_{i}^{\prime \prime }</math> is the number of intervals in the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> group of data intervals
::•	<math>T_{Li}^{\prime \prime }</math> is the beginning of the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> interval
::•	and <math>T_{Ri}^{\prime \prime }</math> is the ending of the <math>{{i}^{th}}</math> interval


The solution will be found by solving for a pair of parameters <math>\left( {\mu }',{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}} \right)</math> so that <math>\tfrac{\partial \Lambda }{\partial {\mu }'}=0</math> and <math>\tfrac{\partial \Lambda }{\partial {{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}}=0</math>:

::<math>\begin{align}
   \frac{\partial \Lambda }{\partial {\mu }'}= & \frac{1}{\sigma _{{{T}'}}^{2}}\underset{i=1}{\overset{{{F}_{e}}}{\mathop \sum }}\,{{N}_{i}}(\ln ({{T}_{i}})-{\mu }') \\ 
   & +\frac{1}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}}\underset{i=1}{\overset{S}{\mathop \sum }}\,N_{i}^{\prime }\frac{\phi \left( \tfrac{\ln \left( T_{i}^{\prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)}{1-\Phi \left( \tfrac{\ln \left( T_{i}^{\prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)} \\ 
   & \ \ -\underset{i=1}{\overset{FI}{\mathop \sum }}\,\frac{N_{i}^{\prime \prime }}{\sigma }\frac{\phi \left( \tfrac{\ln \left( T_{Ri}^{\prime \prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)-\phi \left( \tfrac{\ln \left( T_{Li}^{\prime \prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)}{\Phi \left( \tfrac{\ln \left( T_{Ri}^{\prime \prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)-\Phi \left( \tfrac{\ln \left( T_{Li}^{\prime \prime } \right)-{\mu }'}{{{\sigma }_{{{T}'}}}} \right)}  
\end{align}</math>
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:where:

::<math>\phi \left( x \right)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }}\cdot {{e}^{-\tfrac{1}{2}{{\left( x \right)}^{2}}}}</math>

:and:

::<math>\Phi (x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }}\int_{-\infty }^{x}{{e}^{-\tfrac{{{t}^{2}}}{2}}}dt</math>
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