Estimating the mean of an exponential distribution from grouped observations

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-118

  Shapiro, Samuel S ^a,b   Gulati, Sneh ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Exponential Distribution; Grouped Data; Multinomial Distribution; Weibull Distribution

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EFFICIENCY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATORS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0032045312     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.1998.11979829     Document Type: Article

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