254 – Contributed Oral Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of K Distribution: Application to the Environmental Data
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Keywords: Water quality data, Lognormal
Koji Kanefuji
Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Kosei Iwase
Yokohama College of Pharmacy
We propose the maximum likelihood estimators of the K distribution. This distribution has the same properties as the BS distribution in some aspects. For example, X/a and a/X are distributed as the same distribution. In the statistical analysis for environmental area studies, this type of property is very important. The K distribution has good character in the MLE. In this study, we also apply it to the real water quality data.