TY  - JOUR
AU  - Boonta, Soontorn 
AU  - Sattayatham, Anchalee 
AU  - Sattayatham, Pairote 
PY  - 2013
TI  - ESTIMATION OF WEIBULL PARAMETERS USING A RANDOMIZED NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH FOR THE SEVERITY OF FIRE ACCIDENTS
JF  - Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.3844/jmssp.2013.12.17
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jmssp.2013.12.17
AB  - In this study, we applied Randomized Neighborhood Search (RNS) to estimate the Weibull parameters to determine the severity of fire accidents; the data were provided by the Thai Reinsurance Public Co., Ltd. We compared this technique with other frequently-used techniques: the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), the Method of Moments (MOM), the Least Squares Method (LSM) and the weighted least squares method (WLSM) and found that RNS estimates the parameters more accurately than do MLE, MOM, LSM or WLSM.