Lagrangian Katz family of distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 415-434

  Consul, P C ^a   Famoye, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convolution; Cumulants; Generalized distribution; Maximum likelihood; Moments; Probability generating function

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844462866     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831704     Document Type: Article

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