Discriminating between Weibull and generalized exponential distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-196

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Kundu, Debasis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distributions; Generalized exponential distribution; Kolmogorov Smirnov distance; Likelihood ratio statistic; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

FITS AND TOLERANCES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

GENERALIZED EXPONENTIAL (GE) DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037669060     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00206-2     Document Type: Article

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