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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods Volume 32, 2003 - Issue 7
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On the Exponentiated Weibull Distribution

Manal M. Nassar Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EgyptCorrespondence[email protected]
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Fathy H. Eissa The National Center for Social and Criminological Research, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
Pages 1317-1336 | Published online: 02 Sep 2006

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