Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Laplace kernel and some properties and inferential issues

作者：Zhu Xiaojun^*; Balakrishnan N

来源：Statistics & Probability Letters, 2015, 101: 1-10.

DOI：10.1016/j.spl.2015.02.007

• Birnbaum-Saunders distribution
• Generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution
• Hazard function
• Laplace Birnbaum-Saunders distribution
• Modified moment estimators

For the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Laplace kernel, we discuss the shape characteristics of density and hazard functions. We show the existence and uniqueness of maximum likelihood estimates. Simple modified moment estimators are proposed and compared with maximum likelihood estimates.

• 出版日期2015-6