Least squares fitting the three-parameter inverse Weibull density

Mathematical Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 539-553

  Marušić, Miljenko ^a   Marković, Darija ^b   Jukić, Dragan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Data fitting; Existence problem; Least squares; Least squares estimate; Three parameter inverse Weibull density

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551614979     PISSN: 13310623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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