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<Journal>
<PublisherName>Science and Education Publishing</PublisherName>
<JournalTitle>American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics</JournalTitle>
<Issn>2333-4576</Issn>
<Volume>2</Volume>
<Issue>3</Issue>
<PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
<Year>2014</Year>
<Month>05</Month>
<Day>25</Day>
</PubDate>
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<ArticleTitle>Recurrence Relations for Moments of k-th Upper Record Values from Flexible Weibull Distribution and a Characterization</ArticleTitle>
<FirstPage>168</FirstPage>
<LastPage>171</LastPage>
<Language>EN</Language>
<AuthorList>
<Author>
<FirstName>Mahmoud Ali</FirstName>
<LastName>Selim</LastName>
<Affiliation>Department of Statistics, Faculty of Commerce, Al-Azher University, Egypt &amp; King Khalid University, Community College, Saudi Arabia</Affiliation>
</Author>
<Author>
<FirstName>Hamdy M.</FirstName>
<LastName>Salem</LastName>
</Author>

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<ArticleId IdType="pii">AJAMS20142313</ArticleId>
<ArticleId IdType="doi">10.12691/ajams-2-3-13</ArticleId>
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<History>
<PubDate PubStatus="received">
<Year>2014</Year>
<Month>05</Month>
<Day>10</Day>
</PubDate>
<PubDate PubStatus="revised">
<Year>2014</Year>
<Month>05</Month>
<Day>21</Day>
</PubDate>
<PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
<Year>2014</Year>
<Month>05</Month>
<Day>25</Day>
</PubDate>
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<Abstract>In this paper, we establish some recurrence relations satisfied by single and product moments of k-th upper record values from the flexible Weibull distribution. We also give a characterization of flexible Weibull distribution by using the recurrence relations for single moments.</Abstract>
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