On the hazard function of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and associated inference

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2692-2702

  Kundu, Debasis ^a   Kannan, Nandini ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Bias corrected modified moment estimators; Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Bootstrap confidence interval; Change point; Hazard function; Maximum likelihood estimators; Modified moment estimators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION; BIAS-CORRECTED MODIFIED MOMENT ESTIMATORS; BIRNBAUM-SAUNDERS DISTRIBUTION; BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CHANGE POINT; HAZARD FUNCTION; MODIFIED MOMENT ESTIMATORS;

HAZARDS;

EID: 38149048401     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.09.021     Document Type: Article

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