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THE WEIGHTED GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION IS THE GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Saralees Nadarajah
Saralees Nadarajah*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK E-mail: mbbsssn2@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

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It is pointed out that the weighted generalized gamma distribution of Priyadarshani and Oluyede [2] is a generalized gamma distribution.

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 298 - 299
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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