Exact inference in four-parameter generalized gamma distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 747-756

  Tsionas, Efthymios G ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Gamma distribution; Gibbs sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034905612     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100002149     Document Type: Article

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