Estimation in the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on scale-mixture of normals and the EM-algorithm

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Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-191

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Leiva, Víctor ^b   Sanhueza, Antonio ^c   Vilca, Filidor ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders distribution; EM algorithm; Kurtosis; Maximum likelihood methods; Robust estimation; Scale mixtures of normal distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049164901     PISSN: 16962281     EISSN: 20138830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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