Handbook of exponential and related distributions for engineers and scientists. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nabendu Pal, Chun Jin, Wooi K. Lim.
• Other Names: Pal, Nabendu; Jin, Chun; Lim, Wooi K
• Contents: Acronyms; Notations; List of Figures; List of Tables; GENERAL STATISTICAL THEORY; Basic Concepts; The System of Real Numbers; Some Useful Algebraic Results; Set Theory; Introduction to Probability Theory; Random Variables; Joint Probability Distributions; Moment Generating Function; Order Statistics; Characteristic Function; ; Some Common Probability Distributions; Discrete Distributions; Continuous Distributions; Some Limit Theorems; ; Concepts of Statistical Inference; Introduction; Sufficiency and Completeness; Methods of Estimation; Methods of Evaluating Estimators; Elements of Hypothesis Testing; Set (or Interval) Estimation; ; Elements of Decision Theory; Introduction; Optimality Criteria; Loss Functions; Admissible, Minimax and Bayes Rules; ; Computational Aspects; Preliminaries; Numerical Integration; Monte-Carlo Simulation; Bootstrap Method of Resampling; Testing and Interval Estimation Based on Computations; ; EXPONENTIAL AND OTHER POSITIVELY SKEWED DISTRIBUTIONS WITH APPLICATIONS; Exponential Distribution; Preliminaries; Characterization of Exponential Distribution; Estimation of Parameter(s); Goodness of Fit Tests for Exponential Distributions; ; Gamma Distribution; Preliminaries; Characterization of Gamma Distribution; Estimation of Parameters; Goodness of fit Tests for Gamma Distribution; ; Weibull Distribution; Preliminaries; Characterization of Weibull Distribution; Estimation of Parameters; Goodness of Fit Tests for Weibull Distribution; ; Extreme Value Distributions; Preliminaries; Characterizations of Extreme Value Distributions; Estimation of Parameters; Goodness of Fit Tests for Extreme Value Distributions; ; System Reliability; Preliminaries; Single Component Systems; Reliability of a Series System with Componentwise Data; Reliability of a Parallel System with Componentwise Data; Bibliography; Selected Statistical Tables; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxx, 339 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 519.2/4; Distribution (Probability theory); MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Distribution (Probability theory); Statistical Distributions; Engineering; Science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0203490282; 9780203490280
• Related ISBNs: 1584881380; 9781584881384
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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