The use of spacings in the estimation of a scale parameter

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-204

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Papadatos, N ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

BLUEes and BLIEs; Location scale family; Spacings; Uniform type II censored model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036542539     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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