General results for the beta-modified Weibull distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1211-1232

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^b   Ortega, Edwin M M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Exponentiated exponential; Exponentiated weibull; Fisher information matrix; Generalized modified weibull; Maximum likelihood; Modified weibull; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053096616     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949651003796343     Document Type: Article

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