Parametric estimation of mixtures of two uniform distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 395-410

  Hussein, A ^a   Liu, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite mixtures; L moments; Maximum likelihood; Method of moments; Modified maximum likelihood; Uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949114130     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650701810406     Document Type: Article

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