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Erschienen in: Annals of Data Science 4/2015

01.12.2015

On the Estimation for the Weibull Distribution

verfasst von: M. Alizadeh, S. Rezaei, S. F. Bagheri

Erschienen in: Annals of Data Science | Ausgabe 4/2015

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Abstract

Here, we consider estimation of the pdf and the CDF of the Weibull distribution. The following estimators are considered: uniformly minimum variance unbiased, maximum likelihood (ML), percentile, least squares and weight least squares. Analytical expressions are derived for the bias and the mean squared error. Simulation studies and real data applications show that the ML estimator performs better than others.

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Metadaten
Titel
On the Estimation for the Weibull Distribution
verfasst von
M. Alizadeh
S. Rezaei
S. F. Bagheri
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Annals of Data Science / Ausgabe 4/2015
Print ISSN: 2198-5804
Elektronische ISSN: 2198-5812
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40745-015-0046-8

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