Can data recognize its parent distribution?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 555-580

  Marshall, A W ^a   Meza, J C ^b   Olkin, I ^c  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Geometric extreme distribution; Lifetime data; Lognormal distribution; Model choice; Survival distributions; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035596814     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186001317115117     Document Type: Article

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