Marshall-Olkin extended Weibull distribution and its application to censored data

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1025-1034

  Ghitany, M E ^a   Al Hussaini, E K ^a   Al Jarallah, R A ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Akiake information criterion; Bayesian information criterion; Censored data; Compound distribution; Hazard rate; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum likelihood; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844471352     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760500165008     Document Type: Article

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