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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

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