Maximum likelihood estimation in a mininum-type model with exponential and weibull failure modes

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 75, Issue 370, 1980, Pages 460-465

  Friedman, Lea ^a   Gertsbakh, Ilya B ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimators; Minimum type distribution function; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947685463     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1980.10477495     Document Type: Article

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