The Kumaraswamy modified Weibull distribution: theory and applications

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1387-1411

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Ortega, Edwin M M ^b   Silva, Giovana O ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

censored data; data analysis; exponentiated exponential; exponentiated Weibull; maximum likelihood; modified Weibull; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899458232     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2012.745125     Document Type: Article

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