Estimation of parameters for exponentiated-Weibull family under type-II censoring scheme

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 509-523

  Singh, Umesh ^a   Gupta, Pramod K ^a,b   Upadhyay, S K ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayes estimators; Generalized maximum likelihood estimator; LINEX loss function; Maximum likelihood estimator; Non informative type priors; Risk; Squared error loss function; Type II censoring

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BAYES ESTIMATORS; GENERALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; LINEX LOSS FUNCTION; NON-INFORMATIVE TYPE PRIORS; SQUARED ERROR LOSS FUNCTIONS; TYPE-II CENSORING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 10044240573     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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