A family of shrinkage estimators for Weibull shape parameter in censored sampling

Statistical Papers

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 513-529

  Singh, Housila Prasad ^a   Saxena, Sharad ^b   Joshi, Harshada ^a  

^a VIKRAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NIRMA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bias; Guessed value; Mean squared error; Percent relative efficiency; Progressive type II censoring; Shape parameter; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449087752     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-006-0030-7     Document Type: Article

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