Using mixtures of Weibull distributions to estimate mixing proportions

DOI10.1016/0167-9473(87)90012-0zbMath0617.62030OpenAlexW2012974806MaRDI QIDQ1822160

Wayne A. Woodward, Richard F. Gunst

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-9473(87)90012-0

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetryminimum distance estimationmaximum likelihoodbiassimulation studyrobust estimationmixing proportionsmixtures of Weibull distributionsnormal- based proportion estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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Uses Software

• IMSL Numerical Libraries

Cites Work

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• The Minimum Distance Method
• A Comparison of Minimum Distance and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Mixture Proportion
• An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters
• On the Modes of a Mixture of Two Normal Distributions
• Estimation of Parameters in Compound Weibull Distributions