An R package for a general class of inverse Gaussian distributions

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Leiva, Víctor ^a   Hernández, Hugo ^a   Sanhueza, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Goodness of fit; Lifetime analysis; Likelihood methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949132535     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v026.i04     Document Type: Article

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