Comparison of estimation methods for Weibull parameters: Complete and censored samples

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-153

  Hossain, Anwar M ^a   Zimmer, William J ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure probability; Least squares estimator; Maximum likelihood estimator; Mean squared error; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037319436     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650215730     Document Type: Article

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