The weibull-geometric distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 645-657

  Barreto Souza, Wagner ^a   de Morais, Alice Lemos ^a   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Em algorithm; Exponential distribution; Geometric distribution; Hazard function; Information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimation; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957536819     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903436554     Document Type: Article

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