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
fDate :
6/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1976.5214990
