On the additive weibull distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 10-12, 2014, Pages 2066-2080

  Lemonte, Artur J ^a   Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Ortega, Edwin M M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Additive Weibull model; Maximum likelihood estimation; Moment; Moment generating function; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

BATHTUB SHAPED FAILURE RATE; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION MATRIX; LIFETIME DATA; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; QUANTILE FUNCTIONS; WEIBULL MODELS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84902457813     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2013.766343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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