Generalized exponential distributions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-188

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Kundu, Debasis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Distribution of sum; Exponentiated Weibull model; Gamma distribution; Hazard rate; Maximum likelihood estimators; Stochastic ordering; Uniformly most powerful test; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033418995     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00072     Document Type: Article

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