Moment and maximum likelihood estimators for Weibull distributions under length- and area-biased sampling

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 455-467

  Gove, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal point sampling; Point relascope sampling; Probability proportional to size; Size biased distributions; Weighted distributions

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344897792     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026000505636     Document Type: Article

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