On prior selection for the mixture of Rayleigh distribution using predictive intervals

Pakistan Journal of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-35

  Saleem, Muhammad ^a   Aslam, Muhammad ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Bayes Predictive Interval; Censored sampling; Inverted Chi distribution; Inverted Rayleigh distribution; Mixture distribution; Square Root Inverted Gamma distribution; Weibull model

Indexed keywords

EID: 42549171539     PISSN: 10129367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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