Numerical maximum log likelihood estimation for generalized lambda distributions

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2006.06.008zbMath1161.62329OpenAlexW2032725346MaRDI QIDQ92229

Steve Su, Steve Su

Publication date: May 2007

Published in: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2006.06.008

zbMATH Keywords

prior distributionsempirical data analysisfitting distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10)

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Uses Software

• TOMS659

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