A study of two estimation approaches for parameters of Weibull distribution based on WPP

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 360-368

  Zhang, L F ^a   Xie, M ^a   Tang, L C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Censored data; Least squares estimation; Monte carlo simulation; Pivotal function; Weibull distribution; Weibull probability plot

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CENSORED DATA; LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATION; PIVOTAL FUNCTION; WEIBULL PROBABILITY PLOT;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33750980135     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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