A Paired-Data Analysis for a Lifetime Distribution

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 252-256

  Owen, W J ^a   Sinha, D ^a   Capozzoli, M H ^b  

^a University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate data; Logistic distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Simulation; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034554265     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474557     Document Type: Article

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