Confidence intervals for the mean of the delta-lognormal distribution

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-189

  Fletcher, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Lognormal; Profile likelihood; Skewness; Zero inflated data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ERROR ANALYSIS; GADOID FISHERY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS; TRAWLING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

PSEUDOPHYCIS BACHUS;

EID: 42249097742     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0046-8     Document Type: Article

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