A unified form of gamma-type distributions

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 118, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 175-187

  Kalla, S L ^a   Al Saqabi, B N ^a   Khajah, H G ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Distribution; Hypergeometric function; Statistical properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040332239     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00213-1     Document Type: Article

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