The maximum size of the planar sections of random spheres and its application to metallurgy

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-144

  Takahashi, Rinya ^a   Sibuya, Masaaki ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY OF MERCANTILE MARINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extreme value theory; Generalized gamma distribution; Gumbel distribution; Metal fatigue; Stereology; Wicksell's corpuscle problem

Indexed keywords

SPHERES;

EXTREME VALUE; FATIGUE; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED FUNCTION; HIGH STRENGTH STEEL; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SIZE;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0030372037     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00049294     Document Type: Article

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