Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

"This dissertation is presented in publication form and consists of two articles. The first article considers testing the mean of a gamma distribution. For the case that both parameters in the ganuna distribution are unknown, approximate tests for the mean are derived and tables are provided for their implementation. The power of the tests are compared to the power of the uniformly most powerful tests on the mean when the shape parameter is known. In addition, some limiting results are derived. The second article compares conditional and unconditional methods of constructing confidence intervals for the location parameter in the two-parameter double exponential distribution. Two modes of comparison are used and tables illustrating the comparisons are included"-- Abstract, p. iii

Advisor(s)

Bain, Lee J., 1939-

Committee Member(s)

Wright, F. T.
Engelhardt, Max
Gillett, Billy E.
Pagano, Sylvester J., 1924-2006

Department(s)

Mathematics and Statistics

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Mathematics

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

1978

Pagination

vii, 42 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-41)

Rights

© 1978 John Victor Grice, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 4423

Print OCLC #

6009394

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