Maximum likelihood estimates of symmetric stable distribution parameters

Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 1459-1464

  Brorsen, B Wade ^a   Yang, Seung Ryong ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

leptokurtosis; non linear optimization; numerical integration; Paretian distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000270897     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919008812928     Document Type: Article

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