Journal article
A Consistent Method of Estimation For The Three-Parameter Gamma Distribution
Abstract
For the three-parameter gamma distribution, it is known that the method of moments as well as the maximum likelihood method have difficulties such as non-existence in some range of the parameters, convergence problems, and large variability. For this reason, in this article, we propose a method of estimation based on a transformation involving order statistics from the sample. In this method, the estimates always exist uniquely over the entire …
Authors
Nagatsuka H; Balakrishnan N; Kamakura T
Journal
Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods, Vol. 43, No. 18, pp. 3905–3926
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
September 17, 2014
DOI
10.1080/03610926.2012.714035
ISSN
0361-0926