A global simulated annealing heuristic for the three-parameter lognormal maximum likelihood estimation

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5055-5065

  Vera, J Fernando ^a   Díaz García, Jose A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA AGRARIA ANTONIO NARRO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BLOCK CODES; CODES (SYMBOLS); ESTIMATION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STEEL ANALYSIS; TURBO CODES;

(001) PARAMETER; ELSEVIER (CO); LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; LOGNORMAL; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PARAMETERIZED; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; RE PARAMETERIZATION; REAL DATA;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 47749147663     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.04.033     Document Type: Article

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