Confidence bounds and hypothesis tests for normal distribution coefficients of variation

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2187-2206

  Verrill, Steve ^a   Johnson, Richard A ^b  

^a FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Coefficient of variation; Cramr conditions; Efficient likelihood estimators; Likelihood ratio test; N consistent estimators; Newton's method; One step Newton estimators; Quadratic mean differentiability; Rao test; Risk to return ratio

Indexed keywords

CRAMR CONDITIONS; EFFICIENT LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; N-CONSISTENT ESTIMATORS; ONE-STEP NEWTON ESTIMATORS; RAO TESTS; RETURN RATIO;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34548356996     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701215126     Document Type: Article

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