On the Existence and Uniqueness of the Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Normal and Lognormal Population Parameters with Grouped Data

Lognormal distribution has abundant applications in various fields. In literature, most inferences on the two parameters of the lognormal distribution are based on Type-I censored sample data. However, exact measurements are not always attainable especially when the observation is below or above the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jin Xia, Jie Mi, YanYan Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/310575