A compound class of Weibull and power series distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1410-1425

  Morais, Alice Lemos ^a   Barreto Souza, Wagner ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Order statistics; Power series distributions; Weibull distribution; Weibull power series distributions

Indexed keywords

CLASS OF DISTRIBUTIONS; EM ALGORITHMS; HAZARD FUNCTION; LIFETIME MODELS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; ORDER STATISTICS; POWER SERIES; REAL DATA SETS; WEIBULL;

ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78649317567     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.09.030     Document Type: Article

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