Selecting among weibull, lognormal and gamma distributions using complete and censored smaples

Siswadi and C. P. Quesenberry

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1982, vol. 29, issue 4, 557-569

Abstract: In a recent paper, Kent and Quesenberry [19] considered using certain optimal invariant statistics to select the best fitting member of a collection of probability distributions using complete samples of life data. In the present work extensions of this approach in two directions are given. First, selection for complete samples based on scale and shape invariant statistics is considered. Next, the selection problem for type I censored samples is considered, and both scale invariant and maximum likelihood selection procedures are studied. The two‐parameter (scale and shape) Weibull, lognormal, and gamma distributions are considered and applications to real data are given. Results from a (small) comparative simulation study are presented.

Date: 1982
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