Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Rayleigh distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 389-401

  Lalitha, S ^a   Mishra, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Asymptotic variance; Hyperbolic approximation; Left and right censoring; Order statistics; Outlier (s)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008988853     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831702     Document Type: Article

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