Confidence limits and prediction limits for a Weibull distribution based on the generalized variable approach

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2675-2684

  Krishnamoorthy, K ^a   Lin, Yin ^a   Xia, Yanping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage probability; Detection limit; Extreme value distribution; One sided tolerance limits; Type I left censored; Wald method

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349109705     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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