General results for the Kumaraswamy-G distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 951-979

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

estimation; exponential distribution; extreme values; Kw G distribution; mean deviation; moment generating function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863569635     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2011.562504     Document Type: Article

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