On MLEs of the parameters of a modified weibull distribution for progressively type-2 censored samples

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 617-627

  Jiang, H ^a   Xie, M ^a   Tang, L C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bathtub shaped failure rate; Hessian matrix; Maximum likelihood estimation; Modifiedweibull distribution; Uniqueness and existence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949493136     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760902803289     Document Type: Article

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