Discriminating between the Weibull and log-normal distributions

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 893-905

  Kundu, Debasis ^a   Manglick, Anubhav ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distributions; Likelihood ratio tests; Location scale family; Probability of correct selection

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; LOCATION SCALE FAMILY; PROBABILITY OF CORRECT SELECTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4444294905     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20029     Document Type: Article

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