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The Weibull distribution is an often used model in survival analysis of technical products. In this paper confidence estimations for the parameters of the Weibull distribution are developed for type I censored samples without and with replacements.
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Kahle, W. Estimation of the parameters of the Weibull distribution for censored samples. Metrika 44, 27–40 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02614052
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02614052