Multitude of Laplace distributions

Statistical Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-148

  Kozubowski, Tomasz J ^a   Nadarajah, Saralees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application areas; Laplace distributions; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350637638     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-008-0127-2     Document Type: Article

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