A new four-parameter lifetime distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 248-263

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Shahsanaei, Fatemeh ^b   Rezaei, Sadegh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Compounding; Generalized linear failure rate distribution; Geometric distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887871802     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2012.705284     Document Type: Article

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