Finite mixture of certain distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2123-2137

  Al Saleh, Jamal A ^a   Agarwal, Satish K ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Extended standard gamma function; Gamma distribution; Inverted distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036946050     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120017216     Document Type: Article

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