Lifetime analysis based on the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2079-2097

  Leiva, Víctor ^a   Riquelme, Marco ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^c   Sanhueza, Antonio ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL MAULE   (Chile)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Asymptotic inference; Goodness of fit; Lifetime distributions; Likelihood methods; Monte Carlo simulation; Numerical methods; Reliability and survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELIABILITY;

ASYMPTOTIC INFERENCES; BIRNBAUM-SAUNDERS DISTRIBUTIONS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT; HAZARD FUNCTIONS; LIFETIME ANALYSIS; LIFETIME DISTRIBUTIONS; MODELING FATIGUE DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 35748980302     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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