Neyman type a distribution revisited

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 206-213

  Massé, Jean Claude ^a   Theodorescu, Radu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mixing; Mixture distribution; Modality; Neyman type a distribution; Poisson distribution; Strong unimodality; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844453201     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2005.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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