Statistical analysis of product warranty data

International Statistical Review

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-60

  Lawless, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregate claims; Count data; Log linear models; Prediction; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032394531     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.1998.tb00405.x     Document Type: Article

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