Weibull distributions when the shape parameter is defined.

DOI10.1016/S0167-9473(00)00048-7MaRDI QIDQ5941106zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. O. Bowman, L. R. Shenton

Publication date 20 August 2001

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-9473(00)00048-7

zbMATH Keywords

Envelope distributionMoment estimatorMoments of sample momentsPadé sequencesTaylor seriesUnbiased estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02)

Review text

The Weibull distribution, depending on parameters of location, scale, and shape, is often useful as a model for fracture data sets. If the location parameter is to be estimated then we have shown that maximum likelihood methods are not recommended. In the data set considered here the shape parameter is known to lie between 2 and 3 or so. We therefore studied the two-parameter model for which the shape parameter is known, or has a probability structure. Simple moment estimators are used and some moments of these are studied and verified by simulation.

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