An extended fatigue life distribution

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Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 626-653

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Lemonte, Artur J ^b   Ortega, Edwin M M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Kumaraswamy distribution; maximum likelihood estimation; McDonald distribution; regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878583610     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331888.2011.617447     Document Type: Article

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