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Estimation of the Location and Scale Parameters of a Pareto Distribution by Linear Functions of Order Statistics

Given a random sample from a Pareto type distribution with the cdf $F(x) = 1 - \lbrack1 + (x - \alpha)/\beta\rbrack^{-\gamma}$ for x ≥ α, the problems of ...
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Estimation of Parameters in Survey Sampling: Optimality

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique Some recent works on estimation in survey sampling are analyzed and extended from the perspective of the theory of optimal ...
Nature

A framework for parameter estimation and model selection from experimental data in systems biology using approximate Bayesian computation

Experimental data and mathematical models are beginning to take equal billing in systems biology. Experimental observations without a framework in which to link them offer researchers only limited ...
Risk

Estimating operational risk capital: the challenges of truncation, the hazards of maximum likelihood estimation, and the promise of robust statistics

In operational risk measurement, the estimation of severity distribution parameters is the main driver of capital estimates, yet this remains a nontrivial challenge for many reasons. Maximum ...