Approximating an unknown distribution when distribution information is extremely limited

DOI10.1080/03610919808813492MaRDI QIDQ4232089zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Haim Shore

Publication date 30 January 2000

Published in Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610919808813492

zbMATH Keywords

approximationscensored-datadistribution-fittingmoments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Point estimation (62F10) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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