A new family of non-negative distributions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-78

  Hankin, Robin K S ^a,c   Lee, Alan ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Davies distribution; Maximum likelihood; Uniform order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645025937     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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