Maximum likelihood estimation in Dagum distribution with censored samples

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2971-2985

  Domma, Filippo ^a   Giordano, Sabrina ^a   Zenga, Mariangela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

reliability; survival analysis; type I right censoring; type II double censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858235648     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2011.578613     Document Type: Article

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