Inferences on the parameters of the birnbaum-saunders fatigue life distribution based on maximum likelihood estimation

Technometrics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 251-256

  Engelhardt, Max ^a   Bain, Lee J ^a   Wright, F T ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Confidence intervals; Maximum likelihood; Tests of hypotheses

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0019600321     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.1981.10486294     Document Type: Article

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