A new method for selection of population distribution and parameter estimation

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-255

  Ling, Jing ^a   Pan, Jwo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BAYES ESTIMATION METHOD; MATCHING MOMENTS METHOD; MINIMUM DISTANCE ESTIMATION METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROBUST ESTIMATION METHOD;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032083961     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00171-3     Document Type: Article

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