Parameter estimation by Hellinger type distance for multivariate distributions based upon probability generating functions

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 12-13, 2013, Pages 7374-7385

  Ng, Choung Min ^a   Ong, Seng Huat ^a   Srivastava, H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivariate negative binomial; Consistency; Maximum likelihood; Outliers; Penalized minimum generalized Hellinger distance; Srivastava's triple hypergeometric series

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY; HELLINGER DISTANCE; HYPERGEOMETRIC SERIES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; OUTLIERS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; STATISTICS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84878955595     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.02.044     Document Type: Article

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