Exponentiated Modified Weibull Distribution

Stochastics and Quality Control

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-200

  Elbatal, I ^a  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Exponentiated Modified Weibull Distribution; Hazard Function; Moments; Order Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890520177     PISSN: 23672390     EISSN: 23672404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/EQC.2011.018     Document Type: Article

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