Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1150064 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2007 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

It is shown that the maximum likelihood estimator is superior to the method of moments in estimating the parameter of triangular distributions. It is also shown that the former is not as difficult to calculate as it was previously perceived—thanks to some of its peculiar properties.

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