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Re: st: RE: Reconstructing the distribution from interval data
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Reconstructing the distribution from interval data
Date
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:53:50 +0100
On 8 MFómh 2010, at 19:34, Austin Nichols wrote:
The ML approach seems preferable; for income data, see e.g.
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/g/gbgfit.html
and if you assume a family of distributions for #procedures
(Poisson, maybe?), you can estimate those parameters the same way.
And here is someone working on the problem back in 1971, when your
mother and I were young:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation from Grouped Poisson Data
Walter H. Carter, Jr., Jacob Van Bowen, Jr. and Raymond H. Myers
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Vol. 66, No. 334 (Jun., 1971), pp. 351-353
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2283935
Ronán Conroy
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
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