The Weibull family of distributions is frequently used in failure time models. The maximum likelihood estimator is very sensitive to occurrence of upper and lower outliers, especially when the hazard function is increasing. We consider the method of medians estimator for the two-parameter Weibull mo
Mixture Hazard Models for Lifetime Data
β Scribed by Francisco Louzada-Neto; Josmar Mazucheli; Jorge A. Achcar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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