Estimating extreme quantiles of Weibull tail distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1065-1080

  Gardes, Laurent ^a   Girard, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Extreme quantiles; Weibull tail coefficient; Weibull tail distribution

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

EXTREME QUANTILES; INVERSE CUMULATIVE HAZARD FUNCTION; WEIBULL TAIL COEFFICIENT; WEIBULL TAIL DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 20344404197     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200056849     Document Type: Article

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