Interval Estimation for the Ratio of Scale Parameters and for Ordered Scale Parameters

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-184

  Iliopoulos, George ^a   Kourouklis, Stavros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

confidence interval; Decision theory; scale parameter; variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025286249     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.2000.18.2.169     Document Type: Article

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