Constrained maximization of the Shapiro-Wilk W statistic to estimate parameters of the Johnson S_B distribution

DOI10.1080/03610920903308463MaRDI QIDQ3064098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael R. Flynn

Publication date 20 December 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920903308463

zbMATH Keywords

constrained optimizationJohnson \(S_B\) distributionShapiro-Wilk \(W\) statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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