Erratum to "Point and interval estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Type-II censored samples". [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 50 (2006) 3222-3242] (DOI:10.1016/j.csda.2005.06.002);Point and interval estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Type-II censored samples

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3222-3242

  Ng, H K T ^a   Kundu, D ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Bias corrected estimator; Confidence interval; Monte Carlo EM algorithm; Monte Carlo simulation; Probability coverage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION; BIAS-CORRECTED ESTIMATOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MONTE CARLO EM-ALGORITHM; PROBABILITY COVERAGE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33646590044     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.06.020     Document Type: Erratum

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