Maximum likelihood estimation of dirichlet distributions

DOI10.1080/00949658908811178zbMath0718.62048OpenAlexW1983249544MaRDI QIDQ5750122

Gerd Ronning

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949658908811178

zbMATH Keywords

inequalitiesmaximum likelihood estimatesDirichlet distributiondigamma functiontrigamma functionGlobal concavity of the likelihood function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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