Maximum likelihood estimation of a unimodal probability mass function

DOI10.5705/ss.202014.0088zbMath1360.62152OpenAlexW4299509535MaRDI QIDQ5739470

Fadoua Balabdaoui, Hanna K. Jankowski

Publication date: 15 July 2016

Published in: Statistica Sinica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/e2ac8ec0d978a52d6e4c70a8954dddfa44546d14

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationlimiting distributionunimodalshape constrained estimationprobability mass function estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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