Testing Hypotheses about the Shape Parameter of a Gamma Distribution

DOI10.2307/1269846zbMath0693.62028OpenAlexW2028594832MaRDI QIDQ3468446

Norma S. Ketchum, Ronald Edward Glaser, Jerome P. Keating

Publication date: 1990

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1269846

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic meangeometric meancritical valuesgamma distributionhazard ratetables of critical valuesshape parametermaximum likelihood methodstests of exponentialityBartlett's distributiondecreasing failure rate alternativesgamma increasing failure rateMedian unbiased estimatorsPower curvestesting exponentiality against gamma alternatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Statistical tables (62Q05)

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