Computational procedure of performance assessment of lifetime index of Pareto lifetime businesses based on confidence interval

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 698-705

  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; Confidence interval; Data transformation; Maximum likelihood estimator; Monte Carlo simulation; Pareto distribution; Type II censoring

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA TRANSFER; MANAGERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LIFETIME INDEX; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SERVICE INDUSTRIES; TYPE II CENSORING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 34548491818     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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