‎Record scheme is a method to reduce the total time on test of an‎ ‎experiment‎. ‎In this scheme‎, ‎items are sequentially observed and‎ ‎only values smaller than all previous ones are recorded‎. ‎In some‎ ‎situations‎, ‎when the experiments are time consuming and sometimes‎ ‎the items are lost during the experiment‎, ‎record scheme dominates‎ ‎the usual random sample scheme (Doostparast and Balakrishnan,‎ ‎2010)‎. ‎Estimation of the mean of an exponential distribution‎ ‎based on record data has been treated by Samaniego and Whitaker‎ ‎(1986) and Doostparast (2009)‎. ‎The lognormal distribution is used‎ ‎in a wide range of applications‎, ‎when the multiplicative scale is‎ ‎appropriate and the log-transformation removes the skew and‎ ‎brings about symmetry of the data distribution (Longford‎, ‎2009).‎ ‎In this paper‎, ‎point estimates as well as confidence intervals‎ ‎for the unknown parameters are obtained‎. ‎This will also be‎ ‎addressed by the Bayesian point of view‎. ‎To carry out the performance of the estimators obtained‎, ‎a simulation study is conducted‎. ‎For illustration‎ ‎proposes‎, ‎a real data set‎, ‎due to Lawless (2003)‎, ‎is analyzed‎ ‎using the procedures obtained.‎

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