A new family of generalized distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 883-898

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   de Castro, Mário ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Kumaraswamy distribution; Moments; Normal distribution; Order statistics; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959296374     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903530745     Document Type: Article

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