On the Poisson difference distribution inference and applications

Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-45

  Alzaid, Abdulhamid A ^a   Omair, Maha A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bessel function; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum likelihood estimate; Poisson difference distribution; Regularized hypergeometric function; Skellam distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849100042     PISSN: 01266705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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