Maximum likelihood estimation for the Erlang integer parameter

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00186-2MaRDI QIDQ1962228zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gregory K. Miller

Publication date 30 January 2000

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00186-2

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic meanErlang distributiongamma distributiongeometric meanreliability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) (60K30) Point estimation (62F10) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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