On maximization of the likelihood for the generalized gamma distribution |
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Authors: | Angela Noufaily M C Jones |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
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Abstract: | We explore computational aspects of likelihood maximization for the generalized gamma (GG) distribution. We formulate a version of the score equations such that the equations involved are individually uniquely solvable. We observe that the resulting algorithm is well-behaved and competitive with the application of standard optimisation procedures. We also show that a somewhat neglected alternative existing approach to solving the score equations is good too, at least in the basic, three-parameter case. Most importantly, we argue that, in practice far from being problematic as a number of authors have suggested, the GG distribution is actually particularly amenable to maximum likelihood estimation, by the standards of general three- or more-parameter distributions. We do not, however, make any theoretical advances on questions of convergence of algorithms or uniqueness of roots. |
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