A new distribution with decreasing, increasing and upside-down bathtub failure rate

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 935-944

  Silva, Rodrigo B ^a   Barreto Souza, Wagner ^a   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

BATHTUB FAILURE RATE; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL TREATMENTS; MODEL AND ANALYSIS; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; STATISTICAL WORKS; STRESS STRENGTH;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 73149091207     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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