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Some remarks on structural inference applied to weibull distribution

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The structural probability distribution of the parameters of the two-parameter Weibull distribution is derived directly from considerations of the group structure of its density function. In the process we compare the structural method of inference with the confidence interval approach and reveal their similarities and differences. Structural prediction densities of arbitrary ordered statistics from Weibull distributions are also given to complement a previous work by Bury and Burnholtz.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    P. Tan & Aly Sherif

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This research was partially supported with a research grant from Carleton University

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Tan, P., Sherif, A. Some remarks on structural inference applied to weibull distribution. Statistische Hefte 15, 335–341 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922915

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