Estimating the parameters of Weibull distribution using simulated annealing algorithm

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-93

  Abbasi, Babak ^a   Eshragh Jahromi, Abdol Hamid ^a   Arkat, Jamal ^b   Hosseinkouchack, Mehdi ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Parameter estimation; Simulated annealing; Weibull probability distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

FAILURE DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; THREE PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33845520824     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.05.063     Document Type: Article

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