Using Pareto and Weibull distributions in the modelling of growth processes

South African Statistical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-98

  Ghorbani, H ^a   Moller H J ^b   Stoyan, D ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dislocations; Fluidized bed; Galaxies; Pareto distribution; Silicon wafer; Size distribution; Truncation; Weibull distribution; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645886339     PISSN: 0038271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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