The Kumaraswamy Weibull distribution with application to failure data

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 347, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1399-1429

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Ortega, Edwin M M ^b   Nadarajah, Saralees ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPECTED INFORMATIONS; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTREME VALUE; FAILURE DATA; FLEXIBLE MODEL; LORENZ CURVES; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; MEAN DEVIATION; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; ORDER STATISTICS; POSITIVE DATA; RAYLEIGH; REAL DATA SETS; SUBMODELS; WEIBULL;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956394558     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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