The complementary exponential power lifetime model

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1250-1259

  Barriga, Gladys D C ^a   Louzada Neto, Franscisco ^b   Cancho, Vicente G ^a  

^a FEBUniversidade Estadual Paulista ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bathtub shaped hazard function; Exponential power distribution; Lifetime data; Unimodal hazard function

Indexed keywords

HAZARD FUNCTION; HAZARD RATES; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; LIFETIME DATA; LIFETIME MODELS; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO STATISTICS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL DATA SETS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIMULATION STUDIES; THREE PARAMETERS; UNIMODAL;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HAZARDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS;

EID: 78649331763     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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