Efficient Estimation of Parameters of the Negative Binomial Distribution

DOI10.1080/03610920500501346zbMath1104.62021OpenAlexW2116153649MaRDI QIDQ5484666

Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky, Vippal Savani

Publication date: 21 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920500501346

zbMATH Keywords

negative binomial distributionmaximum likelihood methodmethod of momentsefficiency of estimatorsestimating parametersmarket research

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Point estimation (62F10) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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