Matching moments to phase distributions: nonlinear programming approaches

DOI10.1080/15326349908807147zbMath0708.60019MaRDI QIDQ3490686

Mary A. Johnson, Michael R. Taaffe

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15326349908807147

zbMATH Keywords

phase distributions; Coxian distributions; Erlang distributions; nonlinear programming approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E05: Probability distributions: general theory

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