Goodness-of-fit testing for Weibull-type behavior

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1417-1436

  Goegebeur, Yuri ^a   Guillou, Armelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Extreme value statistics; Goodness of fit; Weibull tail coefficient; Weibull type model

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749120041     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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