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Family of Exponentiated Weibull Distributions

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A handbook, by Rinne (2009), covers the Weibull distribution in many of its aspects. The study of the family of exponentiated Weibull (EW) distributions and their applications attracted the interest of researchers in the nineties. Such interest is growing since then.

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    Essam K. AL-Hussaini

  2. Department of Management Sciences, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA

    Mohammad Ahsanullah

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AL-Hussaini, E.K., Ahsanullah, M. (2015). Family of Exponentiated Weibull Distributions. In: Exponentiated Distributions. Atlantis Studies in Probability and Statistics, vol 5. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-079-9_3

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