Abstract
In this article we present a new method of inference for the three-parameter Weibull distribution. The method enables us to estimate only the shape parameter independent of the location and scale parameters. The methodology is helpful because the difficulty of estimation of the Weibull parameters is dependent on the existence of the location parameter. A simulation study shows that in the case that the location parameter γ is equal or close to zero, the estimator proposed by us is better than MLE for two-parameter Weibull distribution. The simplicity of the method is shown by an example.
