DocumentCode
1315636
Title
Best Estimates of Functions of the Parameters of the Gaussian and Gamma Distributions
Author
Gray, H.L. ; Schucany, William R. ; Woodward, Wayne A.
Author_Institution
Department of Statistics//Southern Methodist University//Dallas, TX 75275 USA
Issue
2
fYear
1976
fDate
6/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
95
Lastpage
99
Abstract
General formulae for minimum variance unbiased estimators of a broad class of functions of the parameters of the Gaussian and gamma distributions are given. The formulae are easy to employ and are applied here to several examples familiar to the reliability engineer.
Keywords
Algorithms; Convergence; Exponential distribution; Gaussian distribution; Laplace equations; Production; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Robustness; Statistics; Exponential; Gamma; Gaussian; Lognormal; Minimum variance unbiased estimation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1976.5214990
Filename
5214990
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