A comparison of estimators of the proportion nonconforming in univariate and multivariate normal samples

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 333-348

  Hamilton, David C ^a   Lesperance, Mary L ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Minimum variance unbiased; Proportion nonconforming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031321810     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949657108811865     Document Type: Article

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