Maximum likelihood parameter estimation in the three-parameter log-normal distribution using the continuation method

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-152

  Hirose, Hideo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuation method; Extended log normal distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Negatively skewed log normal distribution; Positively skewed log normal distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONTINUATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; THREE PARAMETER LOG NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

LOG NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PARAMETERIZATION; THREE PARAMETER;

EID: 0031550930     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(96)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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