A PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF WEIBULL DENSITY

Ezz H. Abdelfattah (Saudi Arabia)

Received June 26, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: Bayesian predictive method, Weibull density, simulation, predictive fit.