The generalized birnbaum-saunders distribution and its theory, methodology, and application

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 645-670

  Sanhueza, Antonio ^a   Leiva, Víctor ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censored data; Goodness of fit; Inference and diagnostics; Lifetime analysis; Robustness; Simulation algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

LIFETIME ANALYSIS; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 35748945633     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701541174     Document Type: Article

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