Experimenting with the Coxian phase-type distribution to uncover suitable fits

DOI10.1007/s11009-010-9174-yzbMath1241.62160MaRDI QIDQ430869

Adele H. Marshall, Mariangela Zenga

Publication date: 26 June 2012

Published in: Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-010-9174-y

zbMATH Keywords

algorithms; simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H10: Multivariate distribution of statistics

62H12: Estimation in multivariate analysis

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62F10: Point estimation

92C50: Medical applications (general)

62N02: Estimation in survival analysis and censored data

Uses Software

• Matlab
• actuar
• EMpht
• Optimization Toolbox