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

DOI10.1007/S11009-010-9174-YMaRDI QIDQ430869zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

algorithmssimulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12)

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• actuar
• EMpht
• Optimization Toolbox

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