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1998 ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS OF A LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION
Wei-Hsiung Shen
Taiwanese J. Math. 2(2): 243-250 (1998). DOI: 10.11650/twjm/1500406934

Abstract

To estimate the mean and the variance of a lognormal distribution, Finney (1941) derived the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators ($UMVUE$) in the form of infinite series. In this paper, we give an alternative derivation of the $UMVUE$s, and also obtain them in integral forms.

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Wei-Hsiung Shen. "ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS OF A LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION." Taiwanese J. Math. 2 (2) 243 - 250, 1998. https://doi.org/10.11650/twjm/1500406934

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Published: 1998
First available in Project Euclid: 18 July 2017

zbMATH: 0902.62041
MathSciNet: MR1623232
Digital Object Identifier: 10.11650/twjm/1500406934

Subjects:
Primary: 62G05

Keywords: Lognormal distribution , uniformly minimum unbiased estimator

Rights: Copyright © 1998 The Mathematical Society of the Republic of China

Vol.2 • No. 2 • 1998
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