Model selection for a family of discrete failure time distributions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-352

  Klar, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrete distribution; Failure time model; Goodness of fit test; Maximum likelihood estimation; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033408826     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00088     Document Type: Article

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