Estimation of the mean and standard deviation from normally distributed singly-censored samples

Environmetrics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 659-673

  Aboueissa, Abou El Makarim A ^a   Stoline, Michael R ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohen's method; Left censored; Likelihood function; Maximum likelihood estimates; Normal distribution; Replacement method

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 7944230629     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.643     Document Type: Article

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