Numerical methods for the maximum likelihood estimation of Weibull parameters

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Gupta, Pushpa L ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Lvin, Sergey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

New Raphson method; convergence; geometric rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040585050     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811921     Document Type: Article

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