Bias Reduction for the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Parameters of the Generalized Rayleigh Family of Distributions

David Giles and Xiao Ling

No 1111, Econometrics Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Victoria

Abstract: We derive analytic expressions for the biases, to O(n-1), of the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters of the generalized Rayleigh distribution family. Using these expressions to bias-correct the estimators is found to be extremely effective in terms of bias reduction, and generally results in a small reduction in relative mean squared error. In general, the analytic bias-corrected estimators are also found to be superior to the alternative of bias-correction via the bootstrap.

Keywords: Generalized Rayleigh distribution; maximum likelihood; bias; mean squared error; bias correction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C15 C46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2011-11-17
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Note: ISSN 1485-6441
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