Properties of estimators for the gamma distribution

DOI10.1080/03610918208812270zbMath0501.62015OpenAlexW2024095124MaRDI QIDQ3966913

L. R. Shenton, K. O. Bowman

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918208812270

zbMATH Keywords

shapeerror analysisasymptotic seriesgamma distributionmaximum likelihood estimatorsunbiased estimatorsmoment estimatorsscalesecond order asymptoticspercentage pointstwo parameter modelthree parameter modelaccurate momentsbivariate contoursjoint acceptance regionsThom estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Point estimation (62F10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Statistical tables (62Q05)

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