SOME ESTIMATION PROBLEMS RELATED TO A GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION AND A SUM OF TWO INDEPENDENT NONIDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES.

Abstract

The problem of estimating the parameters of a linear function of a geometrically distributed random variable is considered. Then this problem is complicated by assuming that the observations contain additive normal noise. This leads to consideration of the more general problem of estimating the parameters of the distribution of the sum of two independent random variables having distributions from different families. The focus throughout the report is on the method of moments. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 30, 1967
Accession Number
AD0660684

Entities

People

  • John Van Ryzin
  • Stanley L. Sclove

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Additives (Chemicals)
  • Data Acquisition
  • Method Of Moments
  • Observation
  • Random Variables

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.