Short communication weighted least-squares estimation of the shape parameter of the weibull distribution

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 467-469

  Hung, Wen Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Probability paper; Shape parameter; Weibull distribution; Weighted least squares estimator

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; SHAPE PARAMETER; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0035518709     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.423     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. An alternative rule for placement of empirical points on Weibull probability paper