Testing the Mixture of Exponentials Hypothesis and Estimating the Mixing Distribution by the Methods of Moments

DOI10.2307/2289802MaRDI QIDQ3481083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James J. Heckman, Richard jun. Robb, James R. Walker

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2289802

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo studyduration dataidentification problemmixture of exponential distributionsBayesian testsconsistent method-of-moments estimator for the mixing distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10)

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