Estimation in the three-parameter gamma distribution based on the empirical moment generating function

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-62

  Koutrouvelis, Ioannis A ^a   Canavos, George C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Moment generating function; Nonlinear weighted least squares; Pearson's type III distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031294467     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811846     Document Type: Article

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