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Original Articles

Comparison between method of moments and entropy regularization algorithm applied to parameter estimation for mixed-Weibull distribution

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Pages 2709-2722 | Received 30 Jun 2009, Accepted 02 Feb 2011, Published online: 20 Apr 2011

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