Heterogeneous data modeling with two-component Weibull-Poisson distribution

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2451-2461

  Erişoǧlu, Ülkü ^a   Erişoǧlu, Murat ^a   Çaliş, Nazif ^b  

^a NECMETTIN ERBAKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADIYAMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; fatigue; heterogeneous data; mixed distribution; mixture of WP distributions; oral irrigators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885375591     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.818108     Document Type: Article

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