On families of beta- and generalized gamma-generated distributions and associated inference

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 344-362

  Zografos, K ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beta exponential distribution; Beta generated distributions; Discrimination between distributions; Maximum entropy principle; Shannon entropy; Stacy's generalized gamma distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650879319     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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