Model selection: some generalized distributions

DOI10.1080/03610928708829422zbMath0614.62020MaRDI QIDQ4721382

James B. McDonald, Dale O. Richards

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928708829422

zbMATH Keywords

model selection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Weibull; exponential; Rayleigh; lognormal; generalized gamma; Feller-Pareto; Burr; Kappa; four-parameter generalized beta distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F10: Point estimation

60E05: Probability distributions: general theory

62E99: Statistical distribution theory

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