Wang, Min; Zhao, Jing; Sun, Xiaoqian; Park, Chanseok - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 40 (2013) 10, pp. 2259-2274
The two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution is widely applicable to model failure times of fatiguing materials. Its maximum-likelihood estimators (MLEs) are very sensitive to outliers and also have no closed-form expressions. This motivates us to develop some alternative estimators. In...