Statistical inference for the size-biased Weibull distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1252-1265

  Tzavelas, George ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

maximum likelihood estimator; method of moments; Weibull distribution; weighted distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880252777     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2012.657197     Document Type: Article

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