Determination of embedded distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 317-334

  Shao, Quanxi ^a   Ip, Wai Cheung ^b   Wong, Heung ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

discriminant; Burr type III distribution; Burr type XII distribution; Embedded model problem; Gamma distribution; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Left censored observations; Lognormal distribution; Pareto distribution; Right censored observations; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EMBEDDED DISTRIBUTIONS; LOG LIKELIHOOD;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 16544379443     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00171-3     Document Type: Article

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