The Beta Generalized Weibull distribution: Properties and applications

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 5-15

  Singla, Neetu ^a   Jain, Kanchan ^a   Kumar Sharma, Suresh ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Beta Weibull distribution; Generalized Weibull distribution; Information matrix; Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE); Weibull

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FIVE-PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MLE); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RAYLEIGH; REAL DATA SETS; SUBMODELS; WEIBULL;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84857973893     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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