Tests for an Epidemic Change in a Sequence of Exponentially Distributed Random Variables

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 946-958

  Ramanayake, Asoka ^a   Gupta, Arjun K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Change points; Epidemic Change; Estimation; Likelihood ratio statistics

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; CHANGE-POINTS; DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; DISTRIBUTION THEORY; EPIDEMIC CHANGE; EXPONENTIALS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO STATISTICS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; POWER; PROPERTY;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 0346392122     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200390062     Document Type: Article

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