The generalized inverse Weibull distribution

Statistical Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 591-619

  de Gusmão, Felipe R S ^a   Ortega, Edwin M M ^b   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Censored data; Data analysis; Inverse Weibull distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Moment; Weibull regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960618348     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-009-0271-3     Document Type: Article

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