On bias in maximum likelihood estimators

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 31-39

  Mardia, K V ^a   Southworth, H R ^a   Taylor, C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cauchy distribution; Fisher; Score function; Von Mises

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347145731     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00176-1     Document Type: Article

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