A comparison of three estimators of the Weibull parameters

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 249-256

  Skinner, Katina R ^a   Keats, J Bert ^a   Zimmer, William J ^b  

^a AZ 85281   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Herd Johnson; Kaplan Meier; Maximum likelihood; Probability plotting; Weibull estimates; Zimmer

Indexed keywords

WEIBULL PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0035388238     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.398     Document Type: Article

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