Bayesian inference for the generalized exponential distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 841-852

  Raqab, Mohamed Z ^a   Madi, Mohamed T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Bayesian prediction; Generalized exponential distribution; Gibbs and Metropolis sampling; Importance sampling; Life testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244486794     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650412331299166     Document Type: Article

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