General results for the beta Weibull distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1082-1114

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

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

beta Weibull distribution; information matrix; maximum likelihood; moment generating function; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878979201     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2011.649756     Document Type: Article

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