Characterizing wood fiber and particle length with a mixture distribution and a segmented distribution

Holzforschung

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 124-130

  Cao, Quang V ^a   Wu, Qinglin ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

goodness of fit tests; lognormal; maximum likelihood estimation; Q Q plots; Weibull

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349088665     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2007.023     Document Type: Article

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