The Kumaraswamy Burr XII distribution: theory and practice

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2117-2143

  Paranaíba, Patrícia F ^a   Ortega, Edwin M M ^a   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^b   de Pascoa, Marcelino A R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burr XII distribution; Kumaraswamy distribution; maximum likelihood; observed information matrix; order statistic; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876719599     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2012.683003     Document Type: Article

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