Lower confidence bounds for percentiles of weibull and Birnbaum-Saunders distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 429-443

  Padgett, W J ^a   Tomlinson, Meredith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonferroni bounds; Fatigue life distribution; Parametric bootstrap; Quantiles; Strength distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038583772     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0094965021000040884     Document Type: Article

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