Robust weighted likelihood estimation of exponential parameters

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 389-395

  Ahmed, Ejaz S ^a   Volodin, Andrei I ^b   Hussein, Abdulkadir A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Robust estimation; Weighted likelihood method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; ROBUST ESTIMATION; WEIGHTED LIKELIHOOD METHOD;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 27844549418     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.853276     Document Type: Article

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