Goodness of fit test for the generalized Rayleigh distribution with unknown parameters

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-366

  Abd Elfattah, A M ^a  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling test; Generalized rayleigh; Maximum likelihood; Monte carlo simulation; Power function

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951831584     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903348155     Document Type: Article

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