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Original Articles

Bias Reduction for the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Parameters of the Generalized Rayleigh Family of Distributions

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Pages 1778-1792 | Received 09 Nov 2011, Accepted 07 Mar 2012, Published online: 03 Apr 2014

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