Accession Number:

AD0669792

Title:

ESTIMATING THE PARAMETERS OF A CONVOLUTION.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CALIF DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Sclove,Stanley L.
• Van Ryzin,John

Report Date:

1968-05-10

Pagination or Media Count:

26.0

Abstract:

The report treats some parametric estimation problems in which one observes a random variable which is the sum of two independent nonidentically distributed random variables. Some basic identifiability theorems are given which suggest the method of moments as a general method for attacking such problems, particularly when one of the summand variables is discrete. Moment estimators and their asymptotic distributions are examined for various specific examples. Author

Descriptors:

• (*STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION)
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• SAMPLING
• MAPPING(TRANSFORMATIONS)
• MEASURE THEORY
• SET THEORY
• RANDOM VARIABLES
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE