Confidence intervals of the hazard rate function for discrete distributions using mixtures

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5388-5401

  Karlis, Dimitris ^a   Patilea, Valentin ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Bootstrap confidence intervals; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Power series distributions

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY; BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POWER SERIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 34247850823     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.037     Document Type: Article

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