A new goodness-of-fit test for Type-I extreme-value and 2-parameter Weibull distributions with estimated parameters

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-48

  Liao, Min ^a   Shimokawa, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 parameter Weibull distribution; Anderson Darling; Cramer von Mises; Goodness of fit test; Kolomogorov Smirnov; Type I extreme value distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033236320     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659908811965     Document Type: Article

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