Maximum spacing methods and limit theorems for statistics based on spacings

The maximum spacing (MSP) method, introduced by Cheng and Amin (1983) and independently by Ranneby (1984), is a general estimation method for continuous univariate distributions. The MSP method, which is closely related to the maximum likelihood (ML) method, can be derived from an approximation base...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ekström, Magnus
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Matematisk statistik 1997
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