Estimation of Weibull parameters from common percentiles

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-24

  Marks, Neil B ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parameter estimation; Percentiles; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344281961     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266476042000305122     Document Type: Article

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