ABSTRACT
The estimation procedures contained in this chapter are generally much easier to apply than
those of the previous chapters because they are mostly given by analytic formulas. The
estimates can be used as quick rough estimates or as starting points for an iterative proce-
dure employed in deriving “better” estimates such as maximum likelihood. Sections 13.1
through 13.4 deal with methods which give estimators for all the parameters of either a
two-parameter or a three-parameter WEIBULL distribution. Sect. 13.5 shows how to es-
timate a single parameter. We finish this chapter by comparing classical approaches to
parameter estimation (Sect. 13.6).
