Comparing the Means of Two Log-Normal Distributions: A Likelihood Approach

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  • L. Jiang
  • M. Rekkas
  • A. Wong
چکیده

The log-normal distribution is one of the most common distributions used for modeling skewed and positive data. In recent years, various methods for comparing the means of two independent log-normal distributions have been developed. In this paper a higher-order likelihoodbased method is proposed. The method is applied to two real-life examples and simulation studies are used compare the accuracy of the proposed method to some existing methods. Mathematics Subject Classification : 62F03

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تاریخ انتشار 2014