Sufficient conditions for unimodality of the positive binomial likelihood function

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(94)90061-2zbMath0791.62037OpenAlexW4231275132MaRDI QIDQ1324582

Dennis F. De Riggi

Publication date: 24 May 1994

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(94)90061-2

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimatorsaddle pointlikelihood functionlocal maximumcounter-example to unimodalitypositive binomialsufficient conditions for unimodality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Parametric inference (62F99)

Related Items (3)

On a hyperbinomial process ⋮ On the ML-estimator of the positive and negative two-parameter binomial distribution ⋮ On maximum likelihood estimation of the binomial parameter n

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• A Comparison of n Estimators for the Binomial Distribution
• Unimodality of Likelihood Functions for the Binomial Distribution

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