On a Family of Trimodal Distributions

DOI10.1080/03610926.2012.689067zbMath1311.60020MaRDI QIDQ2921841

Dasen Ren, Jingyan Hao, Xiaowu Li, Jie Zhou

Publication date: 14 October 2014

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2012.689067

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimators; unbiased estimators; moment estimators; trimodal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E05: Probability distributions: general theory

62E99: Statistical distribution theory

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