The beta-Pareto distribution

Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 547-563

  Akinsete, Alfred ^a   Famoye, Felix ^b   Lee, Carl ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Flood peaks; Hazard function; Moments; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349094330     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880801983876     Document Type: Article

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