Simple approximate inference procedures for the mean of the gammma distribution

DOI10.1080/00949659008811207zbMath0726.62030OpenAlexW2158541961MaRDI QIDQ3350480

Wei-Kei Shiue, Lee J. Bain

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949659008811207

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalsMonte Carlo simulationgamma distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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