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Activity Number: 635
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 5, 2010 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #308275
Title: A Two-Parameter Generalized Double Exponential Distribution
Author(s): Mian Arif Shams Adnan*+ and Humayun Kiser
Companies: Jahangirnagar University and Jahangirnagar University
Address: Department of Statistics,Jahangirnagar, Dhaka, 1342, Bangladesh
Keywords: Exponential Distribution ; MLE ; Median
Abstract:

We have derived a two parameter Generalized Double Exponential Distribution which is the generalization of a couple of distributions such as Normal, Lognormal, Gamma, Rayleigh, Laplace, etc. Estimation of unknown parameter along with some characteristics as well as the sampling properties of the median of the same are aslo provided.


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