Some prediction problems concerning samples from the pareto distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1221-1238

  Dunsmore, Ian R ^a   Amin, Zeinab H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bayesian prediction; Censored sampling; Gibbs sampling; Kernel estimation; Missing data; Pareto distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000792289     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832155     Document Type: Article

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