Bivariate Weibull-power series class of distributions

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 46 Sayı: 6, 1175 - 1186, 01.12.2017

Saralees Nadarajah Rasool Roozegar

Öz

We point out that some of the results in Kundu and Gupta [3] in otherwise an excellent paper are incorrect. We propose a more general class of distributions and illustrate its use with two real data sets.

Anahtar Kelimeler

EM algorithm, Maximum likelihood estimation, Power series distribution

Kaynakça

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