Computational procedure of performance assessment of lifetime index of businesses for the pareto lifetime model with the right type II censored sample

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 336-350

  Hong, Ching Wen ^a   Wu, Jong Wuu ^b   Cheng, Ching Hsue ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business performance; Data transformation; Maximum likelihood estimator; Monte Carlo simulation; Pareto distribution; Type II censoring

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE; DATA TRANSFORMATION; PARETO DISTRIBUTION; TYPE II CENSORING;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 33846566272     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.05.199     Document Type: Article

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