Maximum likelihood estimators of population parameters from doubly left-censored samples

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 811-826

  Aboueissa, Abou El Makarim A ^a   Stoline, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohen's method; Doubly left censored; Likelihood function; Maximum likelihood estimates; Normal distribution; Replacement method

Indexed keywords

DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845319752     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.795     Document Type: Article

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