Constraints for generalized mixtures of Weibull distributions with a common shape parameter

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1724-1730

  Franco, Manuel ^a   Vivo, Juana María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 67649105379     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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