Matching moments to phase distributions: nonlinear programming approaches

DOI10.1080/15326349908807147zbMath0708.60019OpenAlexW2055295973MaRDI QIDQ3490686

Michael R. Taaffe, Mary A. Johnson

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15326349908807147

zbMATH Keywords

phase distributionsCoxian distributionsErlang distributionsnonlinear programming approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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