Bounds of location and scale parameters of three-parameter Weibull distribution are proposed in this paper. These bounds are data dependent and are therefore adaptive. Exact probabilities of recovery of the parameters concerned were proposed and then applied to simulated data.

Weibull distribution, parameter range, order statistic, bounds of parameters.

Received: September 4, 2021; Accepted: October 25, 2021; Published: November 15, 2021

How to cite this article: Jean-Etienne O. Ouédraogo, Edoh Katchekpele and Frederic Bere, Efficient bounds for scale and threshold parameters in the case of the three-parameter Weibull distribution, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics 63(1) (2021), 19-28. DOI: 10.17654/TS063010019

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