Interval estimation for the exponential inverse Gaussian distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 339-349

  Saw, Sutaip L C ^a   Yong, Jongsay ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exponential inverse Gaussian; Interval estimation; Third order likelihood methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549113380     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650601079474     Document Type: Article

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