Estimation methods for the discrete Poisson-Lindley distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Ghitany, M E ^a   Al Mutairi, D K ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Asymptotic relative efficiency; Bias; Consistency; Discrete Poisson Lindley distribution; Maximum likelihood; Mean square error; Method of moments; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049158769     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650701550259     Document Type: Article

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