Efficient estimation of parameters of the negative binomial distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 767-783

  Savani, V ^a   Zhigljavsky, A A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency of estimators; Estimating parameters; Maximum likelihood method; Method of moments; Negative binomial distribution

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

MOMENT-BASED ESTIMATORS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER METHOD ESTIMATORS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33646945118     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920500501346     Document Type: Article

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