Homogeneity and scale testing of generalized gamma distribution

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1809-1813

  Stehlík, Milan ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY;

EXACT DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENT ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED GAMMA; GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTING; RAYLEIGH; TIME-TO-FAILURE; WEIBULL;

TESTING;

EID: 49949103848     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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