Gamma mixture: Bimodality, inflexions and L-moments

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1147-1161

  Ahmed, S E ^a   Goria, M N ^b   Hussein, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bimodal; Gamma mixture; L moments; Moments; Probability weighted moments

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIMODAL ANALYSIS; GAMMA MIXTURE; L-MOMENTS; PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENTS;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 39449132708     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701713286     Document Type: Article

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