Alternatives to maximum likelihood estimation based on spacings and the Kullback–Leibler divergence

An alternative to the maximum likelihood (ML) method, the maximum spacing (MSP) method, is introduced in Cheng and Amin [1983. Estimating parameters in continuous univariate distributions with a sh ...

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