Estimation of the mean of the exponential distribution using moving extremes ranked set sampling

Statistical Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-382

  Al Saleh, Mohammad Fraiwan ^a   Al Hadhrami, Said Ali ^b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Error in Ranking; Maximum Likelihood Estimator; Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimator; Moving Extremes Ranked Set Sampling; Ranked Set Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037633608     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-003-0161-z     Document Type: Article

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