A new compounding life distribution: The Weibull-Poisson distribution

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-38

  Lu, Wanbo ^a   Shi, Daimin ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; failure rate function; information matrix; maximum likelihood estimation; Poisson distribution; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858204101     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2011.575126     Document Type: Article

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