Maximum likelihood estimation for the beta distribution

1 July 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Vol. 7 (3), 253-258
https://doi.org/10.1080/00949657808810232

Abstract

A fast method of calculating the two-parameter maximum-likelihood estimates of the beta distribution is given which does not require starting values and is generally free from convergence problems.

Keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE
BETA DISTRIBUTION

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of the Beta Distribution from Smallest Order Statistics
Technometrics, 1967

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