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Abstract #302026

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Activity Number:	93
Type:	Contributed
Date/Time:	Monday, August 4, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor:	General Methodology
Abstract - #302026
Title:	A Family of Rician Distributions
Author(s):	Akbar Ali Zaidi*+
Companies:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:	1600 Clifton Rd., NE, Atlanta, GA, 30329-4018,
Keywords:	exponential ; Rician ; distribution ; generalized ; gamma
Abstract:	We introduce a family of probability distributions, which is a generalization of Rician distribution. This distribution belongs to the exponential family of distributions and admits three sufficient statstics. We further generalize this distribution to a very broad family of distributions. Moment-generating function and moments of the parent distribution are derived. Maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters are also derived. Applications of the generalized family to various scientific disciplines are presented.

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