A Note on Bias of Closed-Form Estimators for the Gamma Distribution Derived From Likelihood Equations
Abstract
We discuss here an alternative approach for decreasing the bias of the closed-form estimators for the gamma distribution recently proposed by Ye and Chen in 2017. We show that, the new estimator has also closed-form expression, is positive, and can be computed for n > 2. Moreover, the corrective approach returns better estimates when compared with the former ones.
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Louzada, Francisco; Ramos, Pedro L.; Ramos, Eduardo. A Note on Bias of Closed-Form Estimators for the Gamma Distribution Derived From Likelihood Equations. American Statistician. Alexandria: Amer Statistical Assoc, v. 73, n. 2, p. 195-199, 2019. Available at: <http://hdl.handle.net/11449/184543>.
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