Estimating principal points of univariate distributions

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 499-512

  Tarpey, Thaddeus ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; PRINCIPAL POINT; UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031428827     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664769723503     Document Type: Article

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