Using the empirical moment generating function in testing for the weibull and the type I extreme value distributions

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Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 417-431

  Cabaña, Alejandra ^a,b   Quiroz, Adolfo J ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Extreme value distributions; Goodness of fit testing; Moment generating function; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144476496     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02595411     Document Type: Article

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