Testing the Mixture of Exponentials Hypothesis and Estimating the Mixing Distribution by the Methods of Moments

DOI10.2307/2289802zbMath0702.62040OpenAlexW4212978680MaRDI QIDQ3481083

James J. Heckman, James R. Walker, Richard jun. Robb

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2289802

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo studyidentification problemduration datamixture of exponential distributionsBayesian testsconsistent method-of-moments estimator for the mixing distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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