New generalized weibull distribution

Pakistan Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-30

  Zaindin, Mazen ^a   Sarhan, Ammar M ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Generalized exponential distribution; Generalized rayleigh distribution; Linear failure rate distribution; Maximum likelihood method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956078829     PISSN: 10129367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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