On hybrid censored Weibull distribution

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2127-2142

  Kundu, Debasis ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Approximate maximum likelihood estimators; Asymptotic distribution; Gibbs sampling; Maximum likelihood estimators; Optimum censoring scheme; Type I censoring; Type II censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947194238     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.06.043     Document Type: Article

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