A multivariate mixture of Weibull distributions in reliability modeling

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-235

  Patra, Kaushik ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risk; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033570876     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(99)00062-0     Document Type: Article

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