A new class of weighted exponential distributions

Statistics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 621-634

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Kundu, Debasis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Fisher information; Hazard function; Log concavity; Maximum likelihood estimators; Moment estimators; Moment generating function; RR2 Ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449090206     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880802605346     Document Type: Article

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