The estimation of the number of balls put in a sequence of urns

DOI10.1080/03610928908829967zbMATH Open0696.62136OpenAlexW2139987720MaRDI QIDQ3473121FDOQ3473121

Authors: Marc Sobel 

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928908829967

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zbMATH Keywords

method of momentsfrequency functionmaximum likelihood principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

Cites Work

• The molecular clock may be an episodic clock.

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