An extended Birnbaum-Saunders model and its application in the study of environmental quality in Santiago, Chile

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 771-782

  Vilca, Filidor ^a   Sanhueza, Antonio ^b   Leiva, Víctor ^c   Christakos, George ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard analysis; Likelihood methods; R software; Skew distributions

Indexed keywords

BIRNBAUM; COMPUTATIONAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHODS; EXTENDED VERSIONS; HAZARD ANALYSIS; HAZARD RATES; LIKELIHOOD METHODS; MODEL-BASED; NEW MODEL; SANTIAGO , CHILE; SKEW DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

HAZARDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; SOFTWARE;

CHILE; METROPOLITANA;

EID: 77955057737     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-009-0363-6     Document Type: Article

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