Article(electronic)July 1978
ON ESTIMATING PARAMETERS FOR BETA DISTRIBUTIONS
In: Decision sciences, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. 526-531
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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to comment on and give historical perspective to two methdologies for estimating parameters of beta distributions. Fielitz and Myers [3] [4] developed and advocated a methodology using the method of moments, while Romesburg [20] advocated a methodology usingthe method of maximum likelihood. However, what Fielitz and Myers presented as new research and suggested as an area needing further study is ground already trampled. The authors have prepared a graph to underline the superiority of the maximum likelihood method in fitting beta distributions.
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