Estimation of parameters of the Makeham distribution using the least squares method.

Xinlong Feng Guoliang He Abdurishit Abduwali

Published in: Math. Comput. Simul. (2008)

Keyphrases

parameter estimation
least squares
maximum likelihood estimation
estimation algorithm
objective function
computational complexity
preprocessing

fine tuning
significant improvement
estimation accuracy
high accuracy
similarity measure
estimation process
parameter selection

sensitivity analysis
cross validation
clustering method
input data
cost function
pairwise
genetic algorithm

segmentation method
detection method
linear model
regularization parameter
robust estimation
probability distribution
distribution function