On nonlinear weighted least squares fitting of the three-parameter inverse Weibull distribution

Mathematical Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Jukić, Dragan ^a   Marković, Darija ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Data fitting; Existence problem; Least squares estimate; Nonlinear least squares; Three parameter inverse weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953851695     PISSN: 13310623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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