Estimation of Parameters in the Presence of Outliers for a Burr XII distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 637-652

  Hossain, Anwar M ^a   Nath, Shyamal K ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Least squares estimator; Maximum likelihood estimator; Maximum product of spacings; Mean shift model; Outliers; Root mean squared error

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; MAXIMUM PRODUCT OF SPACINGS (MPS) METHOD; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS (RMSE);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0031084390     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708831939     Document Type: Article

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