Fitting the three-parameter weibull distribution: Review and evaluation of existing and new methods

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 281-288

  Cousineau, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Parameter estimation; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBO CODES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLOSED FORMS; DATA SETS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; METHODS OF MOMENTS; MIXED METHODS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; REGULARITY CONDITIONS; SAMPLE SIZES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; THREE-PARAMETER WEIBULL DISTRIBUTIONS; WEAK EFFICIENCIES;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 61349127325     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2009.4784578     Document Type: Review

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