Predicting a Future Lifetime through Box-Cox Transformation

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-279

  Yang, Zhenlin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Coverage probability; Kullback Leibler information; Lifetime distributions; Prediction interval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FORECASTING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033191584     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009676116509     Document Type: Article

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