Generalization of the Weibull distribution: The odd Weibull family

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-277

  Cooray, Kahadawala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence band; Goodness of fit; Maximum likelihood; Total time on test transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845681735     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082X06st116oa     Document Type: Article

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