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Subject:[S] confidence intervals for Weibull shape parameter
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Date:Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:05:00 -0700 (PDT)

Splus 2000 r3.

I have fit a 2-parameter Weibull distribution to a data vector (fire-free
intervals in forests) and would like to compute the probability that the
shape parameter is greater than 1. I can use bootstrap() [I presume] to
compute the standard error. Is there a closed expression for CIs? (I
imagine a normal approximation would be pretty lame here).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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DON MCKENZIE

Research Ecologist
College of Forest Resources, Box 352100
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

206.616.4095
dmck@u.washington.edu

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