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van Dorp, Johan René; Shittu, Ekundayo; Rabiti, Cristian

An enhanced two-quantile Wilks methodology for engineering uncertainty analysis. (English) Zbl 07889612

Appl. Stoch. Models Bus. Ind. 39, No. 1, 88-113 (2023).

MSC:

62-XX Statistics

Keywords:

safety engineering; nonparametric statistics; order statistics; sample size selection
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