The beta generalized exponential distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-172

  Barreto Souza, Wagner ^a   Santos, Alessandro H S ^b   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beta exponential distribution; Generalized exponential distribution; Information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimation; Moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649109258     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802552402     Document Type: Article

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