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Original Articles

The Effect of Mis-Specification Between the Lognormal and Weibull Distributions on the Interval Estimation of a Quantile for Complete Data

Pages 1617-1635 | Received 12 Jan 2010, Accepted 06 Dec 2010, Published online: 28 Mar 2012

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