A Reparameterized Birnbaum–Saunders Distribution and its Moments, Estimation and Applications

The Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) distribution is a model that is receiving considerable attention due to its good properties. We provide some results on moments of a reparameterized version of the BS distribution and a generation method of random numbers from this distribution. In addition, we propose es...

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Main Authors: Manoel Santos-Neto, Francisco José A. Cysneiros, Víctor Leiva, Michelli Barros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics Portugal 2014-12-01
Series:Revstat Statistical Journal
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Online Access:https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/153