On Estimation of Parameters of the Exponential Power Family of Distributions

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 291-299

  Rahman, Mezbahur ^a   Gokhale, D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisection method; Central moments; Heuristic estimates; Kurtosis; Robust ordered linear unbiased minimum variance estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542533450     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919608813314     Document Type: Article

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