Parametric estimation from weighted samples

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 297-311

  Navarro, Jorge ^a   Ruiz, Jose M ^a   Del Aguila, Yolanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecology; Engineering sciences; Genetic; Length biased distributions; Weighted distributions

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ENGINEERING SCIENCE; FISHER INFORMATION; GENETIC; LENGTH BIASED DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETERS ESTIMATORS; PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; RENEWAL PROCESS; WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHTED SAMPLES;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX;

EID: 0035615141     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4036(200106)43:3<297::AID-BIMJ297>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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