Novel algorithm for reconstruction of a distribution by fitting its first-four statistical moments

DOI10.1016/j.apm.2019.02.040zbMath1481.60021OpenAlexW2922247561WikidataQ128264605 ScholiaQ128264605MaRDI QIDQ2310673

Chao Dang, Jun Xu

Publication date: 6 April 2020

Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2019.02.040

zbMATH Keywords

maximum entropy principlereliability analysisfirst-four momentsmoments matchingparametrized probability distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)

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