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Further considerations of modified moment estimators for weibull and lognormal parameters

Whitten Betty Jones University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602
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A. Clifford Cohen University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602
Pages 749-784 | Received 01 Oct 1991, Published online: 27 Jun 2007

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