A note on Beta Inverse-Weibull distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 320-335

  Hanook, Sharoon ^a   Shahbaz, Muhammad Qaiser ^b   Mohsin, Muhammad ^b   Kibria, B M Golam ^c  

^a GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard function; Inverse Weibull distribution; Logit of Beta distribution; Survivorship function; Unimodal

Indexed keywords

BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; CENTRAL MOMENTS; GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS; HAZARD FUNCTION; HAZARD RATES; INVERSE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MODEL PARAMETERS; UNIMODAL;

HAZARDS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY THEORY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 84872045166     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2011.581788     Document Type: Article

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