Closed form expressions for moments of the beta Weibull distribution

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-373

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Simas, Alexandre B ^b   Stošíc, Borko D ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beta weibull distribution; Expected information matrix; Maximum likelihood; Moment; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959324818     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 16782690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652011000200002     Document Type: Article

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