On finite mixture of two-component Gompertz lifetime model

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-67

  Al Hussaini, Essam K ^a   Al Dayian, Gannat R ^a   Adham, Samia A ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bayes estimates; Censored samples; Heterogeneous population; Lindley's approximation; Maximum likelihood; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034350099     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650008812033     Document Type: Article

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