Characterization of the Weibull distribution by properties of the Fisher information under type-I censoring

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-105

  Gertsbakh, Ilya ^a   Kagan, Abram ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher information; Lack of memory; Scale parameter; Type I censoring; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042042087     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00212-0     Document Type: Article

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