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The Most Comprehensive Book on the SubjectChronicles the Development of the Weibull Distribution in Statistical Theory and Applied StatisticsExploring one of the most important distributions in statistics, The Weibull Distribution: A Handbook focuses on its origin, statistical properties, and relate...

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Main Author: Rinne, Horst
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Boca Raton, Fla. : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I: Genesis, theory and description; Chapter 1: History and meaning of the WEIBULL distribution; Chapter 2: Definition and properties of the WEIBULL distribution; Chapter 3: Related distributions; Chapter 4: WEIBULL processes and WEIBULL renewal theory; Chapter 5: Order statistics and related variables; Chapter 6: Characterizations; Part II: Applications and inference; Chapter 7: WEIBULL applications and aids in doing WEIBULL analysis; Chapter 8: Collecting life data.
  • Chapter 9: Parameter estimation
  • Graphical approachesChapter 10: Parameter estimation
  • Least squares and linear approaches; Chapter 11: Parameter estimation
  • Maximum likelihood approaches; Chapter 12: Parameter estimation
  • Methods of moments; Chapter 13: Parameter estimation
  • More classical approaches and comparisons; Chapter 14: Parameter estimation
  • BAYESIAN approaches; Chapter 15: Parameter estimation
  • Further approaches; Chapter 16: Parameter estimation in accelerated life testing; Chapter 17: Parameter estimation for mixed WEIBULL models; Chapter 18: Inference of WEIBULL processes.
  • Chapter 19: Estimation of percentiles and reliability including tolerance limitsChapter 20: Prediction of future random quantities; Chapter 21: WEIBULL parameter testing; Chapter 22: WEIBULL goodness-of-fit testing and related problems; Part III: Appendices; Table of the gamma, digamma and trigamma functions; Abbreviations; Mathematical and statistical notations; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.