Generalized exponential distribution: Different method of estimations

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 315-337

  Gupta, Rameshwar D ^a   Kundu, Debasis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Bias; L estimators; Least squares estimators; Mean squared errors; Method of moment estimators; Percentiles estimators; Simulations; Unbiased estimators; Weighted least squares estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035631031     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650108812098     Document Type: Article

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