Weighted inverse Gaussian - A versatile lifetime model

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2695-2708

  Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Kundu, Debasis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders distribution; censored samples; EM algorithm; Fisher information; inverse Gaussian distribution; length biased inverse Gaussian distribution; maximum likelihood estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858253029     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2011.567251     Document Type: Article

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